Quotes About Discipline

You have to stop drawing on things!"Teena was yelling. "Paper only, okay? Not walls. Not faces. Not Mrs. Reynold's dog. Not my pants." "I was doing the days of the week pants" "I don't need days of the week pants!" She shouted. "And if I did I would spell Wednesday correctly!

he said, that the only way to achieve something magical was through work and discipline

She said it was like fishing: you had to learn to be quiet and patient to reel in what you wanted.

Ona musi si? nauczy?, i? jedynymi sposobami, by osi?gn?? co? magicznego, s? ci??ka praca i dyscyplina.

I played sports in high school and in college.

There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters

Do yourself a favor, and realize that there's no technique in the world that will save you. There are no pills, no secrets, no passwords on the path to greatness. You've got to embrace the pain, push the threshold, and feel the suck, and then you've got to muster the courage to go back six times a week.

If you don't establish your dominance, you're not making life easier for the dog, you're condemning him to a life of confusion, disappointment, and destructive behavior.

In 1955, Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, "When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

He was aware that he was not completely sane, so he kept himself in rigid check, playing both jailer and prisoner.

As the legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi used to say, you have to know your fundamentals to play a good game.

As disciplinary norms lost their effectiveness, television was crafted into a machinery of regulation, introducing previously unknown effects of subjection and supervision. This is why television is a crucial and adaptable part of a relatively long transition (or changing of the guard) lasting several decades, between a world of older disciplinary institutions and one of 24.7 control.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

I have been negligent this month past, in these three things: I have not been watchful enough over my appetites, in eating and drinking; in rising too late in the morning; and in not applying myself with sufficient application to the duty of secret prayer.

The estrangement between Edwards and his people began in 1744, in connection with a case of discipline in which a large number of the youth belonging to the leading families of the town were brought under suspicion of reading and circulating immoral books.

Preparation is one of the foundations for success in any field.

Some constraint is good for us; absolute freedom is not.

The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin

We are right to note the license and disobedience of this member which thrusts itself forward so inopportunely when we do not want it to, and which so inopportunely lets us down when we most need it. It imperiously contests for authority with our will.8

No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything. "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all" - Michael Angelo

If you want to get better, you simply have to practice. There's no way around it. Even though Prasad, Sona, and Rex all had beneficial early experiences with music, each has had to spend thousands of hours in practice to acquire their musical prowess. Rex told me, "If people could've lived my life and all the hours I've spent practicing the tuba alone in some little room someplace, they probably wouldn't label me as being particularly talented."[6]

Forget about the 10,000-hour rule you've heard so much about. It's a red herring. What's important is not the hours you've practiced, but the kind of practice in your hours. Focus on the tree, not the forest.

The crossroads is a practice room. The devil to be dealt with is practice. Wynton Marsalis calls it "tackling the monster.

When great musicians practice, they go slowly enough that errors are avoided. When an error does crop up, expert practicers fix those errors immediately. That's the strategy: fixing a mistake immediately. Anybody can do it, and anybody who adopts that strategy will get better faster than those who don't.