Quotes About Discipline

That was one manifestation of fear, the voice which whispered that he could not be both great and good, that genius was the exact combination of those inexplicable grooves and twists in his mind, that any discipline would curb it to mediocrity.

They were uncertain, resentful, and somewhat ill at ease. This they hid by pretending an elaborate relief at being out of the army, and by assuring each other that military discipline should never again rule their stubborn, liberty-loving wills. Yet, as a matter of fact, they would have felt more at home in a prison than in this newfound and unquestionable freedom.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure

To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation. If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while.

The existence of laws for the association of ideas, as for all intellectual operations, insults our native indiscipline.

A society so undisciplined in its cultural foundations could obviously not help but be a victim

De enige houding die een superieur mens past, is koppig doorgaan met iets waarvan hij inziet dat het geen zin heeft, zichzelf onderwerpen aan een discipline waarvan hij weet dat ze vruchteloos is, en steevast filosofische en metafysische normen hanteren waarvan hij aanvoelt dat ze geen betekenis hebben.

He's a good boy, he takes instruction well; I just can't think of enough things to tell him not to do.

But the secret of it all-in-all,' continued the Sergeant, 'is the daily readings. Attend to your daily readings and your conscience will be as clear as a clean shirt on Sunday morning. I am a great believer in the daily readings.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

I have 50 or 60 pages on the [new] novel but I still expect to be a long time at it. It's a theme that requires prayer and fasting to make it get anywhere. I manage to pray but am a very sloppy faster.

The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art.

Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been given to do.

My advice to all parents is beat your children moderately and moderately often; and anything that Wm. Heard Kilpatrick & Jhn. Dewey say do, don't do Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n'y a de continuellement bon que l'habitude d'un travail entêté. Il s'en dégage un opium qui engourdit l'âme… Read and do not dream. The only thing that is continually good is the habit of stubborn work. It emits an opium that numbs the soul…

Flaubert Gustave Flaubert

Writers should be orderly and predictable in their lives, so that they can be ferocious and sinister in their work.

A lot of my family and friends have seen how disciplined I've been and they are just so proud of me. I'm happy I could make them proud of me.

I separate my family life from fighting.

I suppose trying not to fancy Richard Gere - that's been quite hard!

The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.

I've always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It's something I've always been interested in.

I don't eat two days a week. And people are fascinated by it, but it works. If you cut two days of food out of your life you will lose weight.

I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.