Quotes About Discipline

a New York Times column on the topic, David Brooks summarizes this reality more bluntly: "[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

To maximize your success, you need to support your efforts to go deep. At the same time, this support needs to be systematized so that you don't waste mental energy figuring out what you need in the moment.

How you'll support your work.

most out of your deep work sessions, build rituals of the same level of strictness and idiosyncrasy as the important thinkers mentioned previously.

How you'll work once you start to work.

For example, you might institute a ban on any Internet use,

fighting desires—over time these distractions drained their finite pool of willpower until they could no longer resist. The same will happen to you, regardless of your intentions—unless, that is, you're smart about your habits.

Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it's instead like a muscle that tires. This is why the subjects in the Hofmann and Baumeister study had such a hard time fighting desires—over time these distractions drained their finite pool of willpower until they could no longer resist. The same will happen to you, regardless of your intentions—unless, that is, you're smart about your habits.

Most knowledge workers avoid the uncomfortable strain of deliberate practice like the plague, a reality emphasized by the typical cubicle dweller's obsessive e-mail–checking habit—for what is this behavior if not an escape from work that's more mentally demanding? As

People fight desires all day long.

The Art of Focus,

Not only did Jordan's early practice require him to constantly stretch himself beyond what was comfortable, but it was also accompanied by instant feedback. The teacher was always there, Jordan explained, "to jump in and show me if I junked up a harmony.

Roy Baumeister ve onu takip eden di?er biliminsanlar?n?n çal??malar?n?n irade hakk?nda ortaya koydu?u fevkalade mühim gerçek ?u: ?rade, kullan?ld?kça tükenen k?s?tl? bir kaynakt?r.

To summarize, if you want to eliminate the addictive pull of entertainment sites on your time and attention, give your brain a quality alternative.

When you work, work hard. When you're done, be done.

the differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain.

We are not obligated to provide everyone who comes to this country with a good life," Morgan went on. "We are obligated to provide them with a chance to attain that life, through discipline and hard work. That chance is more than they have anywhere else. That is why they keep coming.

Excessive knowledge is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose tongue is indeed a child with a knife.

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Acting with discipline requires you to know your true nature and, having come to know it, to bring it under control.

Duty and honor, I thought. Stern and difficult taskmasters, but I must obey them both now.

La fidelidad a los demás, si no coincide, como una moneda con otra moneda, con la violenta y propia fidelidad al dictado de nuestra conciencia, no es maña de mayor respeto que la disciplina – o los reflejos condicionados – del caballo del circo.