Quotes About Discipline

Also, I entreat you: do not show your work in progress to any outsider. I mean Bradley or Kahane, or anyone who is not working with you, following your thought, entering into it. It is confusing. These men are not your co-workers or even friends. These men are outsiders. Keep to yourself. You need a deep cohesion, a strong forward continuity. Admit no opinions until you are through.

You need to write much much less and sweat more, go through agonies of torture in acquiring that craft which people less gifted than you or me have acquired earlier in their career.

Paolo Giovio, an Italian chronicler of the age of Suleiman, summarized his opinion of the Turkish army as follows: 'Their discipline is far more just and strict than that of the ancient Greeks and Romans. There are three reasons for their superiority over us in battle: they immediately obey their commanders; they never worry about the possibility of losing their lives; and

Kant provides a more helpful answer. For him, these first semblances of virtue can be explained in terms of discipline, in other words, as a product of external constraint: what the child cannot do on his own because he has no instinct for it "others have to do … for him," and in this way "one generation educates the next.

Dice sul serio?" "Sul lavoro non scherzo mai", replica duro il delegato. E nemmeno fuori dal lavoro, se è per questo.

among the most important things to consider when it comes to gaining the skills of Christian living are things like discipline, physical actions, training and practice.

All you need remember is one simple rule. Never mix business...with pleasure.

His was the other road to freedom, that of dedication to his craft.

In measured doses, mortification cleanses the soul. It's the perfect antidote for excessive self-regard.

Knox could not fail to see what was so patent: many books of the German reformers may have come in his way; no more was wanted than the preaching of George Wishart in 1543-45, to make him an irreconcilable foe of the doctrine as well as the discipline of his Church.

There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old courage, standing on one's own feet, and forever seeking enlightenment; courage to develop your way, but learning from the other fellow; experimentation with your own ideas, observing for yourself, a rigid discipline of doing over that which you can improve.

Unless we are willing to pay the price, to sacrifice time and attention and seemingly legitimate or necessary tasks for the sake of the spiritual gifts, we need not look for much power from above in our work.

A life marked by daily answer to prayer is evidence of spiritual maturity.

And so He teaches us two lessons of deep importance about prayer. The one is that faith needs a life of prayer in which to grow and keep strong. The other is that prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development.

reach, that these meditations are now published. It is only by frequent repetition that a child learns its lessons.

Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.

But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. . . . Without holiness no one will see the Lord. HEBREWS 12:10, 14

If it [talent] isn't strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it's not worth much.

Because technology is devoted primarily to making our lives easier, it discourages us from disciplines, especially ones that involve disentangling ourselves from technology itself.

The pursuit of a mature life, a life that can bear the weight of image bearing, is in many ways the continual accumulating of more and more secret disciplines, until we are fully formed in the image of the one who confronted every temptation, every opportunity for the misuse of power, and always and only bore the true image in the midst of it all.

Everything good requires sacrifices.

like everything, sanity came more easily with practice.

No ripping the barre out of the wall.