Quotes About Discipline

people need ordering principles,

The acts of life we repeat every day need to be automatized. They must be turned into stable and reliable habits, so they lose their complexity and gain predictability and simplicity.

It doesn't matter so much if they go to bed at the same time each evening, but waking up at a consistent hour is a necessity. Anxiety and depression cannot be easily treated if the sufferer has unpredictable daily routines.

Children are damaged when their "mercifully" inattentive parents fail to make them sharp and observant and awake and leave them, instead, in an unconscious and undifferentiated state. Children are damaged when those charged with their care, afraid of any conflict or upset, no longer dare to correct them, and leave them without guidance.

load, and enjoy the consequences? What should I be doing, when I have some freedom, to improve my health, expand my knowledge, and strengthen my body?

contrary to previous assumptions, young men and women who possess the collective social graces of a herd of sex-crazed water buffalo and have an intelligence quotient in the range of Forrest Gump on three hits of acid, can be taught to sound like Wall Street wizards, as long as you write every last word down for them and then keep drilling it into their heads again and again—every day, twice a day—for a year straight.

but you still need to state them every time you bring up the expenditure of energy.

It means you're best off resisting the lure of the hot new fund that made 10% over the last twelve months. Better to follow the deeply unsexy advice you're probably sick of hearing, the "eat your vegetables and take the stairs" of financial planning: instead of hunting for a magic system or an adviser with a golden touch, put your money in a big dull low-fee index fund and forget about it.

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Dona Flor via o torso forte do esposo sob o pijama, as largas omoplatas, o cangote rijo, os músculos do braço. Mordendo os lábios, tratou de desviar o pensamento, pois sendo segunda-feira não era dia dessas coisas. Sistemático, o doutor mantinha nisso e em tudo a mais perfeita ordem.

La libertad se aprende obedeciendo primero, porque esta obediencia permite construir las herramientas psicológicas de la libertad.

Herkes avluya giriyor ve öÄŸretmenin bulunduÄŸu yeri ar?yor. ÖÄŸretmen bizi dörder dörder s?raya diziyor, koyunlar gibi s?n?fa giriyoruz.

When this reality, the one and only power that checks and disciplines man from within, vanishes because belief in it is slackening, the social domain falls prey to passions. The ensuing vacuum is filled by the gas of emotion. Everyone proclaims what best suits his interests, his whims, his intellectual manias. To escape the void and the perplexities of his own soul, a man will rush to join any party standard that is being carried through the streets. With society gone there remain only parties.

El trabajo, creando el hábito del esfuerzo, sería la mejor escuela del carácter; pero la sociedad enseña a odiarlo, imponiéndolo precozmente, como una ignominia desagradable o un envilecimiento infame, bajo la esclavitud del yugo y de horarios, ejecutado por hambre o por avaricia, hasta que el hombre huye de él como de un castigo: sólo podrá amarlo cuando sea una gimnasia espontánea de sus gustos y de sus aptitudes.

I would certainly spank my mom.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

I was highly pleased to see the discipline of the pack, and the good-nature of the Knight, who could not find in his heart to murder a creature that had given him so much diversion.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

Cowardice and courage are just labels—words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That

A Jewish ethical treatise warns that a man must not express his anger by pounding on a book or by hitting people with it. The angry teacher must not hit the bad student with a book, nor should the student use a book to ward off blows.

people who climb to the top of just about any field eclipse their peers through something as basic as deliberate practice.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Daily, Deliberate Practice is the central goal of learning any skill. Never underestimate the power of human will. Joseph Klunder Education Challenge is more an attitude that can be applied to any learning situation.