Quotes About Discipline

HABITS A MASTER SALESPERSON MUST ELIMINATE

procrastination. There is no substitute for prompt and persistent action.

Spending too much time and effort creating excuses. Explanations do not explain. Orders do.

Intemperance. The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.

No man's education is ever finished. A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot mentally develop.

How to master procrastination… and take definitive action

Men who control themselves usually boss the job, no matter what it may be.

We form habits based on the degree of reinforcement we receive.

Habits make no moral judgments; they can be either good or bad. Both are formed through repetition.

rules through which you may form the habits you desire:

L'uomo, per tua regola, nasca ricco o povero, è obbligato in questo mondo a far qualcosa, a occuparsi, a lavorare. Guai a lasciarsi prendere dall'ozio! L'ozio è una bruttissima malattia, e bisogna guarirla subito, fin da ragazzi: se no, quando siamo grandi, non si guarisce più.

Discipline Makes the Glowing Coat of Awareness Unpalatable to the Predator.

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge . . ..

Therefore, anthropology, the study of man, should be the core of every other discipline. Someday, it will.

It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren't too many of those. It's much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn't have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group. . .anything.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

O talento natural é como a força de um atleta. Pode-se nascer com mais ou menos faculdades, mas ninguém consegue ser um atleta simplesmente por ter nascido alto ou forte ou rápido. O que faz um atleta, ou um artista é o trabalho , o ofício e a técnica. A inteligência com que se nasce é simplesmente a munição. Para se chegar a fazer alguma coisa com ela é necessário transformarmos a nossa mente numa arma de precisão.

A tehetség olyan, mint sportolónál az erÅ'. Sokféle adottsága lehet az embernek, mégsem lesz senkibÅ'l világbajnok pusztán azért, mert magasnak, erÅ'snek, gyorsnak született. A munka teszi a sportolót, a m?vészt pedig a munka, a technika, a szorgalom. Bármilyen okosnak születik is valaki, az csak útravaló. Akkor tudod felhasználni, ha elÅ'bb jó fegyvert kovácsolsz a gondolataidból.

Don't learn how to find excuses for not writing before you learn how to write. That's a privilege of professionals and you have to earn it.

Una delle prime risorse dello scrittore professionista che Isabella aveva imparato da me era l'arte e la pratica di procrastinare. Ogni veterano del mestiere sa che qualunque occupazione, dal temperare la matita al catalogare le ragnatele, ha la priorità al momento di sedersi alla scrivania per spremersi le meningi.

Routine is liberating, it makes you feel in control.

His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.

It would seem that to Bligh, infliction of punishment was like sickness, and scurvy, something that had no place on a well-run ship. William Bligh had set out to make the perfect voyage.

Guess you can take the teacher out of the classroom, but you can't take the bossy out of the teacher.