Quotes About Discipline

The world is a grand moral gymnasium wherein we have all to take exercise so as to become stronger and stronger spiritually.

If you squander your time on the tricks of the trade, On discovering just how a shortcut is made, You've neglected the work and your skills are but frail. If you fail to prepare, you're preparing to fail.

Coach Wooden's philosophy is for players and students to improve a little every day and make perfection the goal. His method for improving conditioning included one painful demand—each player, when reaching the point of exhaustion, was to push himself beyond. When this is done every day, top condition will be attained over time.

Priority Practice planning was a sacred time. It was always at the same time of day, in the morning, and was never interrupted except for emergencies.

There are actually eight laws of learning—Demonstration, Explanation, Imitation, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, and Repetition. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. There is absolutely no substitute for repetition. I believe in learning by repetition to the point where everything becomes automatic… the best teacher is repetition, day after day, throughout the season." - John Wooden

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

While architecture's sense of disciplinary inferiority ultimately derives from the antique pyramid of expression that placed language and poetry at its lofty apex and building down amid the mud and toil of the ground, architecture's Sisyphean effort to achieve elevation only became more futile with the development of modern capitalism on the one hand […] and avant-garde strategies of opposition on the other.

Today, I would say at last, this disciplinary Tourette's syndrome, where suddenly and even in the face of tremendous productivity architecture still blurts out a sense of shame, is starting to be understood as self-imposed and more likely to prolong paralysis than move the discipline further.

Architecture's history of interaction with other mediums is a long and complex story of intimacy and separation, power and control, but it is also a history that has repeatedly played a central role in the discipline's advancement.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

God's purpose for your life cannot manifest in the midst of chaos. You can't reach the place you were destined to be if you're constantly getting sidetracked. You cannot reach your life purpose when everything in your life is undisciplined, distracted, and disordered.

Success doesn't want you to succeed. That's why you have to fight your way through to success in endurance, faith, perseverance and discipline.

If you chase after everything at once, you stand a good chance of ending up empty-handed.

Trzeba wstawa?. Trzeba podnie?? si? z ?ó?ka i wykona? pi?tna?cie czynno?ci, nad których sensem nie wolno si? zastanawia?. Naro?l automatycznych przyzwyczaje?. B?ogos?awiony rak bezmy?lnego ?adu tradycji.

Hai finito di mangiare?" "Sì, Maestro, ho finito." "Allora, va' a lavare le stoviglie!

The discipline of war was a near neighbor to the abandon of love.

In Aristotle's words, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Even if a river flows with milk, a dog can take in only one lick at a time

Frog dies because of its making noise

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.