Quotes About Discipline

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

When I practice there's a bunch of noise going on, people will talk, so I don't really have mouse ears for the most part.

I give my children a lot of freedom, which I suppose a lot of parents don't do. I do have rules but nothing like no noise, no music.

You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

I've been wrestling since I was 4 years old, so I have over 30 years in some form of wrestling, non-stop in my life. For me, it's who I am.

I don't think I would deliver the best work if I would do several projects at the same time. So it's one at a time, but I work a lot. I work nonstop actually, but that's what I like.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

I'm in the gym nonstop, I'm always in shape, so I'm willing to do what it takes.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

I feel like, as boxers, we're not like normal people. After a while doing this, you get that buzz. It can be wild and out of control. I have to try to control myself. That's what boxing is about - control.

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

I'm normally quite restrictive in the runs department.

I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

Normally doing an album you go from track to track and go, 'Let's not work on this one today, let's go work on the other one,' and I think you tend to get more self-indulgent that way.

Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches.

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

Well, ever since I was six, I had a little notebook with coverages and notes on the mental aspect of a game, what it meant to be a leader and what type of attitude you had to have.

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be able to do much.