Quotes About Discipline

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How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

True diligence runs contrary to human nature.

The soul of the diligent is made fat" (Proverbs 13:4).

Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you're taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class and heading for the nearest hamburger, coke, and French fry station.The thought of them pouring all those dead calories into themselves makes me want to cry. You'd think after a rigorous dance class they'd have more respect for their bodies.

Discipline must come through liberty…. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

Because, Lucius, without the discipline of philosophy to give rigour to their thinking, people can and will believe anything, no matter how absurd.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.

Self-discipline must be the hardest principle to master. Second is tolerance and then acceptance.

I know how to handle his type, how to wield the whip to keep the jaws at bay.

The enemies of our soul are real and not to be underestimated, they are to be engaged and not avoided, and they are to be countered using the five smooth stones of Scripture, prayer, fellowship, worship, and discipline. Like David, we must develop our skills in handling our own smooth stones in the power of the Lord. The results will be stunning.

Fiction, nonfiction. Biography, memoir. Science, psychology. History. Everything had its place. That was the beauty of libraries. No surprise except when someone screwed up, or was lazy, or was a thief.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

Our kids must learn that "no" means "no" and not "maybe, if you throw a temper tantrum, whine, or threaten to run away." It will be difficult if they did not learn this when they were young. If they have been subtly calling the shots and manipulating their parents, change will be hard and will take longer. But it is never too late to do what is right.

You really ought to try reining in those hormones of yours. It's a radical concept for you, I'm sure, but just as a change of pace.

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

John Berryman, put it, "Something has been said for sobriety, but very little.