Quotes About Discipline

I like fighting at the higher weight. That extra seven pounds helps because of energy, strength and I can focus more throughout the training camp, without having to put extra time into making weight.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

I get up at the same time every morning.

Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.

After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.

she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow] eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she wakes up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.

Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two. There - that is it. That is the way good little boys and girls should do. I see one little girl who is looking out of the window - I am afraid she thinks I am out there somewhere - perhaps up in one of the trees making a speech to the little birds. [Applausive titter.]

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.