Quotes About Discipline

I hate those things," grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring.

I leave you mages to it. I'm going to camp and torture some trainees.

ALANNA AWOKE AT dawn, ready for another session with Coram's big sword.

I have come back into the desert in sore need of the disciplines I once learned here, things which fail me from lack of practice.

In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

He told me the single most important thing for a hitter was "to get a good ball to hit.

During meals, I was taught table manners, and I was not allowed to twirl my fork around over my head. The only time I could revert back to autism was for one hour after lunch. The rest of the day, I had to live in a nonrocking, nontwirling world.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

By bringing our daughters to France, we were actually sending them to a boot camp where children learn not just to speak, but to speak a lot, and well.

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

so I pulled out my phone, checked my dinner spreadsheet—the one I always completed Sunday night with attached recipes and exact nutritional value.

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

You want undergraduates who can write, think, and read? Stop pretending that writing can be taught across the curriculum by geologists and physicists who wouldn't recognize a dependent clause if it bit them on the ass.

Mr. Leszczynski attended class faithfully, arriving on time, and rarely succumbed to the undergraduate impulse to check his cell phone for messages or relentlessly zip and unzip his backpack in the final minutes of class.

Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive.

When an ascesis is understood as a technique for the conscious creation of a force that can be applied, in the first place, at any level, then the disciplines taught by the doctrine of awakening can be recognized as those that incorporate the highest degree of crystallinity and independence.

The dignity a god enjoys on earth is splendid, but hard to achieve for the weak. Only he who sets his soul on this objective, is worthy to become a king.' The ruler appears as a "follower of the discipline that is practiced by those who are gods among men.

For someone who writes as slowly as I do, each installment is a full day's work. Newspaper novels are painful... Whether I like what I'm writing or not, whether I'm feeling inspired or not, I have to write an installment every day.

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

The road to cat wand mastery is long and treacherous indeed!