Quotes About Discipline

No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.

Mantener la disciplina en circunstancias ideales no tiene ningún mérito.

For the first time, the Foundation has been faced, or perhaps, is in the last stages of facing, civil war. Till now, the attacks from without have been adequately beaten off, and inevitably so, according to the strict laws of psycho-history. The attack at present is that of a too-undisciplined outer group of the Foundation against the too-authoritarian central government. The procedure was necessary, the result obvious.

Discipline today for a better life tomorrow is a true expression of First Law if robots could only be made to see it.

There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances.

A soldier who serves an emperor has to have a uniform, and this also applies to a soldier who serves the Almighty.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.

Si tienes vocación para la pintura, tarde o temprano vas a pintar y es mejor que sea temprano. ¿Por qué tiene que ser en París o Buenos Aires? Sólo necesitas disciplina. Es como el piano, ¿sabes? Rara vez da para vivir, pero hay que intentarlo», argumentó Roser.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

por eso salían a cazar a los desertores con lazo y enseguida los azotaban para enseñarles su doctrina de amor y perdón.

I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.

El Diablo pone en nosotros muchos y muy variados apetitos, pero Dios nos da claridad moral para controlarlos. Eso nos diferencia de los animales.

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

Basically, I'd finished doing gymnastics when I was 15, 16, but I'd stayed training because I'd just sort of loved it, and I'd met a man by the name of Peter Bell - no relation - who it turns out was a stuntman in New Zealand.

I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them.

I would say I had zero philosophical thoughts at that time. I was operating on a timed checklist that we've been trained to do, to try to maximize every really minute on the moon.

When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.

After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot down every single detail of the plot as bullet points per chapter, and only when the skeleton is complete do I start writing.

Size zero doesn't make you happy, and I'm not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I'm too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.

In the 'Mass Effect' universe, there is zero ad libbing.

I'm not a very emotional guy. I just move on to the next play. I've always been that way. I don't like showing much. I just try to do my job and get out. It's important to stay poised until that clock says zero.