Quotes About Discipline

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day.

Rock stars, like anyone else, have to show discipline and take consistent good actions.

I've completely changed the way I eat since doing 'Dancing With The Stars.'

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

I kind of stumbled into this. I used to do karate and then I started reading muscle magazines. Eventually, I began training and competing.

I train every day to be a starter.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle.

My day starts with the chanting of Gayatri Mantra and Om Namah Shivay. I chant them every time I bowl.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

My day starts at 4:30 A.M., and I sort of have two speeds: fast and stop.

A standard day usually starts very early - 4.30 A.M. pick-ups and in the make-up chair by 5.30.

A golden rule? Do not come food shopping when you're starving hungry and craving stuff. You'll fill your basket with all the naughty things you probably wouldn't eat.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

My friends seem to think that an hour and a half effort a day is all they need to bring to the altar to make things work for them. I couldn't do that. I thought that if you didn't work at least as hard as the guy who runs a gas station, then you had no right to hope for achievement. You certainly had to work all day, every day.

I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.