Quotes About Discipline

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.

I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.

I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously stunted.

I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

Make it a practice to kick yourself for every time you answer your children with the words NOT RIGHT NOW.

Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.

I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

In the off-season you like to take a little time for yourself, but I'd like to say that people say I live in the weight room and that I had the keys to it. That's just the type of character I am.

Killing time takes practice.

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.

The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.