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Quotes About Discipline

When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.
~ Alan Sugar
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Control your anger before it controls you
~ Faisal Attari
I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like to do as much as I possibly can with what's become some pretty significant training.
~ Eliza Dushku
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
~ Anne Sullivan
I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
~ Queen Latifah
Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
If you want to be a writer-- stop talking about it! Sit down and write. -Jackie Collins
~ Roberta Wilson
If it's not on the table, don't eat it off the floor.
~ Melody Carstairs
When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules
~ Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica
Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo
~ Cora Carmack, Faking It
All this discipline was like pinching a balloon, I bulged somewhere else, especially inside my head.
~ Milton Murayama
My father had two favorite sayings. One is a saying about samurai. It is a kind of proverb that says a samurai must keep to a higher standard than the common man. Even if he has nothing to eat, he pretends that he has plenty, meaning that a samurai never lets go of his pride.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
Cuando yo debuté como maiko pesaba cuarenta kilos y mi quimono, veintidós. Tenía que sostenerme con todo el atuendo y de manera impecable sobre unas sandalias de madera de doce centímetros de altura. Un solo elemento fuera de lugar hubiera podido ocasionar una desgracia.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
Colocar el abanico entre una y la maestra es un acto ritual, y significa que la alumna está dispuesta a dejar atrás el mundo cotidiano y a entrar en el ámbito de los conocimientos de la profesora. Al hacer una reverencia, declaramos que estamos preparadas para recibir lo que la maestra está a punto de inculcarnos.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
There were three things I had to do on my way to class.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
Istoria e o voluptate foarte înÈ™el?toare È™i o disciplin? care nu-È™i salveaz? niciodat? pe cei mai riguroÈ™i adepÈ›i. Istoria nu ajut? s? supravieÈ›uiasc? decât pe acei care o fac, nu È™i pe cei care o cerceteaz? obiectiv. Cu cât eÈ™ti mai obiectiv, cu atât eÈ™ti mai trec?tor, mai muritor. Subiectivitatea, voinÈ›a personal?, elanul temperamental – numai acestea sunt p?strate în istorie.
~ Mircea Eliade
Alchemy was not an embryonic chemistry; it was a discipline bound up with a different system of significances and pursuing a different end.
~ Mircea Eliade
I feel that so many problems in my life may have been prevented had I been more contained.
~ Miriam Toews
To exaggerate a bit: academic theology today is composed of specialists in an unrespected discipline who write for fellow specialists about topics that interest hardly anyone else.
~ Miroslav Volf
I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side.
~ Mitch Albom
Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." He was one of my special ones. And he was quite correct. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But
~ Mitch Albom