Quotes About Discipline

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.

It's true that I went to dance classes as a young boy, and it did improve my feet, but I don't believe that it was solely dancing that helped my footwork.

When it came to basketball, I was a fanatic. I started to focus solely on basketball the summer before my freshman year in high school. I worked on my shooting in the driveway, drawing up charts where I recorded each day's performance. I spent hours working alone on ball-handling. I ran five miles a day and played games against my friends.

When I'm in training, I eat no solid food except hot dogs for six weeks.

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

There is no Benitez 'method.' We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.

Setting a solid screen is something I'm proud of.

All I can say is this: what I'm doing with children is good, solid common sense.

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.

When I'm writing a book, I don't have any responsibility to anyone. I'm solitary. I'm writing on my own. I write by hand. And I write every day. I mean, it's part of my daily discipline.

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.

I'm a solo skater; the sport can be lonely.

I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.

Some people need a command-and-control environment.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

If you want to learn and to become somebody, you must sacrifice some things.

Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.

We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'

When I was 25 and I was told to eat 6 pieces of potato every day, someday it would be 8, someday it would be 10. Not that it's going to make a big difference. But now when I am told by my nutritionist that you get to eat 6 pieces a day, it's 6. Done!

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.