Quotes About Discipline

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

The more muscle I'm losing, the better I'm cueing.

I think that there's something about short films that just kind of keeps your muscles sharp.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

I love barre because even when I'm not dancing, I feel like I'm training those same muscles.

Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.

In year seven and eight I was very small, but I was muscular. Year nine, ten and eleven I got massive. I was in the gym every day, even at lunchtime and break times. I was thinking about boxing at that time but didn't think I would actually do it.

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

When I'm shooting a music video, when we're midway through the day, I need everyone to be quiet while we're getting ready for the next scenes. That's really important for me to be able to keep my head in the game.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

In musical theatre you're also supposed to be able to dance and everything, so I've always tried to take dance lessons, but I've realized that martial arts comes to me so much more easily than dancing ever has.

Musicals look beautiful and great and fun, but man, when you're getting into it, you got to be on top of it.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

He that rises late must trot all day.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

I never want a coach to feel like he needs to be my friend, I always want a coach to be the coach and I'm the type of guy that wants to be held accountable all the time, so I respect coaches.