Quotes About Discipline

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.

In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

You get a lot farther in life without drugs.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

I promise myself, once back in Paris, to write every day at least a page about anything, if only to keep my spirit on alert.