Quotes About Discipline

When she finally muscled her way off, she reminded herself to be clear, thorough, and dispassionate. She reached Whitney's outer office, and his admin. "I need

In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the crook of his thumb, but even more in the feel of his hand being tugged back lightly from its course across the page by the strict, unvarying shape of the letters, the discipline of the alphabet.

The humanities the core of the university. She may be an outsider, but if she were asked to name the core of the university today, its core discipline, she would say it was moneymaking. That is how it looks from Melbourne, Victoria; and she would not be surprised if the same were the case in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Vivir, dijo Marco Aurelio, exige el talento del luchador, no del bailarín. Basta con mantenerte de pie: no hacen falta pasos hermosos

When order in study was finally reestablished, Wrath looked downright nasty. Next one of you mouthy assholes makes me pound my desk again, I'm throwing you the fuck out. On that note, he reached down, picked up the cowering ninety-pounds retriever, and settled George in his lap. You're freaking out my dog and it's pissing me off.

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

Amazing, John thought as he stood behind Xhex. If you looked down at your cock and balls and told them that if they behaved badly you would slice them up and bury them in the back yard, they actually listened to you.

The guy was cracking down on the Brotherhood, organizing shifts, trying to turn four loose cannons like V, Phury, Rhage, and Z into soldiers. No wonder he always looked like his head hurt.

He willed his hands to be steady by vowing to saw them off if they embarrassed him.

concentrate to do so

Amazing, John thought as he stood behind Xhex. If you looked down at your cock and balls and told them that if they behaved badly you would slice them up and bury them in the backyard, they actually listened to you. He

This psychology crap? I can guess where you're going with this tantrum, and in the interest of saving time — which seems to be an imperative for you — I would say that what is bullshit to you is a field of disciple that I've got a PhD is and will spend the rest of my life further researching, participating in, and advocating for. So if you're looking to persuade me that there isn't value in what I do, you're pushing water uphill.

Amazing, John thought as he stood behind Xhex. If you looked down at your cock and balls and told them that if they behaved badly you would slice them up and bury them in the backyard, they actually listened to you. He was going to have to remember this.

The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.

Actually, the best traders have no ego.

You just stay focused on what you have to do. Exactly.

I discovered that you can't train people how to trade by just imparting knowledge. The key to trading success is emotional discipline. Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. Think of all the bright people that choose careers on Wall Street. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.

hold on to your winners and cut your losers.

When asked what he thought the average trader did wrong, Tom Baldwin, who in the days before electronic trading was the largest individual trader in the Treasury bond pit, replied, "They trade too much. They don't pick their spots selectively enough.

and you should think of time off from running as part of training rather than as a missed training day.

is easier to maintain a level of fitness than it was to achieve that fitness.

We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the whole thing is wrong.

Thinking about writing isn't writing. Planning to write isn't writing. Neither is talking about it, posting about it, or complaining how hard it is. These may be part of the process. But only writing is writing.

Back when I first came up with the Twins as a second baseman, Billy worked with me on my fielding, on playing the game, on being heads-up, hustling, always doing my best, not alibiing. And when he was the Twins' manager, I enjoyed playing for him.