Quotes About Discipline

And yet, without discipline or direction, they'll end up washing cars, or unclaimed bodies in the city-state's morgue.

Seems like those boys of mine get into three times as much trouble when school is out. I still don't understand how you get them to mind without a switch or at least a primed rifle over your arm." He reached over to help himself to the doughnuts.

You know, if Tony had turned you over his knee more often instead of spoiling you rotten, you'd be a happy housewife now, instead of playing at detective and making it harder for us to get our job done. But I'm a happy detective, Bobby, and I made a lousy housewife.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

Las niñas decentes se van a la cama a las seis de la tarde para llegar temprano a su casa".

We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex.

It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to.

There's nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.

I guess that's what my dad did. Stopped agreeing with reality. I could do it for as long as it took me to get from my classroom to the office. He managed it for sixteen years. He must have had more mental discipline than me. Or maybe it wasn't that much of an effort to pretend that I didn't exist.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough

If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.

Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very careful when doing something like that.

Many people can talk for a long period of time. But controlling, you know, your urinary tract is maybe the more difficult issue.

Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.

I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

A perfectionist has to take his time.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way