Quotes About Discipline

In order to have success it is necessary to know certain principles and rules

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

One private from the Parachute Regiment had passed Nobby every morning on his way from the married quarters. 'Morning, sir!' he would say. One day Nobby stopped him. 'No need to keep calling me "sir" when we see each other every day,' he told him. 'My name's Nobby.' The following day the soldier passed the RSM as usual. 'Morning, Nobby,' he said. 'You're under arrest for insubordination!' said Mr Arnold.

Chabon's success can be traced back to three requirements: talent, luck, and discipline. "Discipline," he says, "is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

I'm not speaking to hear myself talk, Mr. Cronyn. I told you to be quiet. One more interruption and I will have you silenced.

Bosch was tempted to wait in line for another round but decided to stay hungry. The

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

You must first learn patience, if you wish to learn anything at all.

Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the power changes you so that you won't abuse it.

Let's keep it in perspective,' Hammond said. 'You get the engineering correct and the animals will fall into place. After all, they're trainable.

A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is the kind of power that science fosters, and permits....

Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special.

Not eating is a vice, a drug of sorts--with her stomach empty she feels quick and clean, clearheaded, ready for a fight.

The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of excellence of whatever kind -- these are right and proper ideals for life.

Documentation is an affirmation of order.

Your arrows do not carry,' observed the Master, 'because they do not reach far enough spiritually.' Eugen Herrigel Zen and the Art of Archery

3. The Model Will Stand Out as a Place of Impeccable Order

The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and quantity of practice time.

From On Combat (2004) Do not expect the combat fairy to come bonk you with the combat wand and suddenly make you capable of doing things that you never rehearsed before. It will not happen.

I quickly learned that success in any area of life, be it in the boardroom or on the battlefield, is overwhelmingly dependant upon a person's mastery of their own mind. General Patton once said: "If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do...

He didn't worry about how screwed-up the market for some security became because he knew that eventually it would be disciplined by logic: Businesses either thrived or failed. Loans either were paid off or were defaulted upon.

The Germans. They will always do the job they are given no matter what.

train were harder than usual to ignore. They were