Quotes About Discipline

many theories were put forth, there was one common factor that researchers recognized in all great performers: they practiced so hard and intensely that it hurt.

the "10,000 hour" rule. The rule's premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of focused, intentional practice. Analyzing the lives of geniuses in a wide range of intellectual, artistic, and athletic pursuits confirms this concept.

regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of focused, intentional practice.

there was one common factor that researchers recognized in all great performers: they practiced so hard and intensely that it hurt.

one common factor that researchers recognized in all great performers: they practiced so hard and intensely that it hurt.

How do we explain such unintuitive findings? While many theories were put forth, there was one common factor that researchers recognized in all great performers: they practiced so hard and intensely that it hurt.

Studies of people with extraordinary abilities, like Ted Williams, have given rise to what Swedish psychologist Dr. K Anders Ericsson called the "10,000 hour" rule. The rule's premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of focused, intentional practice. Analyzing the lives of geniuses in a wide range of intellectual, artistic, and athletic pursuits confirms this concept.

He is most powerful who has power over himself

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Faut savoir s'étendre Sans se répandre.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

There is nothing esoteric about value investing. It is simply the process of determining the value underlying a security and then buying it at a considerable discount from that value. It is really that simple. The greatest challenge is maintaining the requisite patience and discipline to buy only when prices are attractive and to sell when they are not, avoiding the short-term performance frenzy that engulfs most market participants.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

For every rod of wet bamboo upon the student's back, the teacher deserves two.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

His dictum was, "Let not a single hour pass in which you do not devote yourself to prayer, reading, writing or some other useful work.

True leaders have their own selves firmly in control; they are in command of their actions, their feelings, their attitudes, and their perspective.

I am good at earning what I need, and more. I'm good at saving money. Every month, without fail, I put something aside. Each week, each month, and each year, I do what I need to do to become financially more secure.

An indication you have shed restraint too soon is when you lose all discipline. Or if you feel compelled to force everyone to shed their swaddles as you have done. These are forms of squirming and squawking, and they are indications that you are rebelling rather than growing.

You better dust off your etiquette, better sit like you did back at whatever grade that made it clear to you that your teachers are not your parents, and that any mess you made remains your responsibility.

It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.