Quotes About Discipline

My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing.

I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.

If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.

I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should.

I'm asleep at midnight. I go to bed really early, so I don't have a midnight snack.

Generally I try to be as healthy as possible, but it's hard to be on set because anything and everything is available to you. I'm healthy half the time, and half the time I'm like, 'Sure let me go back and see whatever snack they have laid out.'

You've got to focus on getting better at one thing at a time, every single drill, every single snap.

If I'm writing a furiously angry scene, I have to consciously snap out of it when I shut down the computer, or I find myself growling at my family.

Making every snap, every play, every rep count. I think, once you do that, the good things, the stats, they come along with it.

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.

Nobody wants to stay in Green Bay and run laps in the snow and go boxing in the gym. Everybody has what works for them, and I feel as though this works for me - it keeps me hungry, it keeps me with that edge. Other guys get a hard day's work in, but they're on the beach afterward.

After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.

I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.

I have a new appreciation for how fit martial artists are. There is so much energy being exerted when you fight.

It's important to play the right way. If you play the right way, it's so much fun.

I usually tried to stay in the net for 45 minutes, half an hour longer than most batsmen would stick at the county nets. There was a reason for this so-called gluttony of practice: it was a conscious effort to make myself concentrate for long periods of time in circumstances as close to the real thing as I could make them.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

have seen no other effects in rods but to make children's minds more remiss or more maliciously headstrong.

With very little ado I stop the first sally of my emotions, and leave the subject that begins to be troublesome before it transports me. He who stops not the start will never be able to stop the course; he who cannot keep them out will never, get them out when they are once got in;

Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise. It is not a triumphant power...it is a modest, suspicious power, which functions as a calculated, but permanent economy.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime