Quotes About Discipline

You have to be careful about practicing, because we start to practice practicing. We need to practice performing.

In an interview with Charlie Parker, another jazz saxophone legend, Paul Desmond, asked Parker if his fantastic ability came as a result of practice, or from performing a lot. Parker said, I can't see where there's anything fantastic about it at all. I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true…. I used to put in at least from 11 to 15 hours a day…over three or four years.[1]

Icy people often freeze themselves in order to hold in check a volcanic stew of disturbing and conflictual feelings. Emotional hibernation, if you will. Crack the ice and the stuff inside comes pouring out with all the discipline of molten lava.

It won't work I look before I leap I love margins and discipline I make lists in my sleep Baby what's my sin? Never quit-I follow through I hate mess-but I love you What to do with my impromptu baby

I got this," said Nix, raising her bokken.

They tried to teach you to make lists in grade school, remember? Back when your day planner was the back of your hand. And if your assignments came off in the shower, well, then they didn't get done. No direction, they said. No discipline. So they tried to get you to write it all down somewhere more permanent.

Maturing into a viable adulthood is partly about discipline, but it is also about luck. Aldous Huxley famously wrote that experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. That is profoundly correct. Our life experience is not one event after the other but a series of opportunities to grow by making sense of what is meaningful and what isn't. Some do that better than others.

We often suffer from akrasia, weakness of will. So we become good people the way we become good tennis players or violinists, through practice until the behaviour we aspire to becomes natural and instinctive. Being moral means acquiring the habits of the heart we call virtue.

The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Early to bed, early to rise; Work like hell and fertilize.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell: fertilize

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

All I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose-leaf.

Children are our future. We cannot allow them to run amok. -pg. 167 The Collected Sayings of the Emperor "The Demon's Daughter

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

I was in the ROTC program. I remember once I was walking through campus and my instructor grabs me, and he's a real big guy, and yells, "It's been six weeks since I've seen you in camouflage class!" I said, "I'm getting good."

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Do not dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

Most people fail in life not because of luck, but because of lack of direction,dedication, and discipline. _Mehraj Mubarak

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

Las herramientas que potencian la inteligencia son: el orden, la constancia, la voluntad y la motivación.