Quotes About Discipline

John Patterson, president of National Cash Register, was a fan of Napoleon. Patterson rode horseback with his executives every day at 5 a.m. He demanded that they maintain a little red book to record daily activities, thoughts, ideas, and so on. He ruthlessly fired many an employee who failed to maintain a notebook.

I could write 15,000 words a day and gave myself three days a volume.

I am a man who fasts until I see what I want.

But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn't understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented by order, what was outside it. He tore apart the plot—see his music was immediately on top of his own life. Echoing. As if, when he was playing he was lost and hunting for the right accidental notes.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

S policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets—except on days that begin with the letter S.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.

I work hard, I am punctual and believe that I am sincere.

From my playing days, I have believed hard work and sincerity works.

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.

People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.

One piece of advice I often give young singers, including my son Vijay, is to not get sidetracked from their primary duty of learning music. This is the age of marketing and hard sell. Everybody wants instant results. But no amount of hard sell will prop you up if you don't hone your craft.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

There's a lot more to success than just singing.

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

Excellence is not a single act. You are what you repeatedly do.