Quotes About Discipline

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

I'm out of the habit. I've spent years trying not to want. Just, you know, as an endeavor, like quitting smoking.

didn't fit through the hole. He waked up from his nap. Then he started to cry very loud. I heard loud feet running in the hall. "JUNIE B. JONES! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" yelled an angry voice. It was Mother.

chastised when they have misbehaved, and taught the difference between right and wrong. Now, where is my dressing gown?

The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself.

Some vicious thing inside me stirred. I felt it in my gut, the back of my neck, my hands. I thought of Musashi, the master swordsman, who wrote, You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy.

I pulled on a pair of shorts and did two hundred and fifty Hindu push-ups, five hundred Hindu squats, several minutes of neck bridges, front and back, and a variety of other bodyweight calisthenics and stretches. What you can get done with nothing more than a floor, your bodyweight, and gravity in thirty minutes of nonstop activity would put the fitness equipment industry out of business if people caught on.

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat, an army instructor once told me, and I've never forgotten the lesson.

Most people find it hard to do two things at once, like complete a sentence and avoid a palm heel to the nose.

I thought of Musashi, the master swordsman, who wrote, You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy.

I believe there are steps we can take to mitigate—even eliminate—many of these sources of distress, but they aren't easy. They require practice, discipline, and perhaps a new way of thinking. On the other hand, each of these steps will bring its own rewards.

Restricting yourself in this way may seem both difficult and arbitrary, but actually, this is the kind of discipline we exercise in other aspects of life. You may have a rule of thumb never to have more than two glasses of wine at a sitting.

A man who can't stay a bit shouldn't approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests.

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

Se volete fare gli scrittori, ci sono due esercizi fondamentali: leggere molto e scrivere molto. Non conosco stratagemmi per aggirare queste realtà, non conosco scorciatoie.

Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can't expect to become a good writer

it's perfectly okay to paraphrase Nietzche: if you keep your focus, eventually your focus will keep you. Sometimes without parole.

Remember the six Ps. Perfect Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.

In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle said, "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out

There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.

What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life?