Quotes About Discipline

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

He demanded from his guests inflexible conformity to schedule, decreeing, for example, precisely when they should write their letters, stroll about the grounds, or ride into the village

Don't start something that you cannot finish.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp. It pays off.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

If you wish to become significantly better at something, you can.

Purposeful practice is all about putting a bunch of baby steps together to reach a longer-term goal.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

She replied that the manual labour exercised her body while allowing her mind and spirit to rest, adding that she believed there was value in the discipline of ordinariness, provided that it was only a discipline and not an unvarying state of being.

He took a couple of steps. "I clink," he said. "It's undignified." "Everybody clinks. It's what soldiers do.

My dad used to turn of the TV an scold me to study.

gets up very early each morning and spends two or three hours in prayer and then an hour or two reading the Bible.

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

One danger is that the person will strive very hard in spiritual disciplines as a way of avoiding or burying deep pain. Eventually, however, he or she will realize that the spiritual path must bring everything to light.

I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first…. No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

By the nature of their discipline, mathematicians invariably do their best intuitive work in their twenties or early thirties—whereas historians and other social scientists often need years of studious preparation before they became capable of genuinely creative work.

And only through discipline is it possible "to see the world without the gross distortion of personal desire, and in seeing it so, accept more easily our earthly privation and its earthly horror.

He is doubtless very gifted but completely without mental discipline. He's outwardly very modest, but inwardly very arrogant." Ehrenfest's reply is lost, but Born's next letter is indicative: "Your information about Oppenheimer was very valuable to me. I know that he is a very fine and decent man, but you can't help it if someone gets on your nerves.

I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, and war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude; for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.

A Kung Fu Master is a Practitioner of Martial Arts Who Keeps Practicing.

These rules of Saama, Daana, Bheda are all ineffective. You must use the fourth one, Danda.

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

Know the rules of child rearing!! Rule one: Physical strength! Rule two: Physical strength! There are no rules three or four, but rule five is physical strength!