Quotes About Discipline

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. –

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

tried-and-true methods. Once, he had sifted through a hundred bags of garbage

Focus means saying no." Focus is also having the confidence to say no when everyone else is saying yes.

There is a notion in Britain of a T-shaped designer," Milton said, "one with depth of discipline in a single area but also a breadth of empathy for other areas of design.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people -- because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it -- I don't care how good you are.

Boards don't hit back.

Never take your eyes off your opponent ... even when you're bowing!

Forty percent of teachers spend more time keeping order than teaching (Johnson, 2004).

You do not mess with the special investigators.

Monk guzzled the water and tossed the empty bottle over his shoulder.

You see, more than a simple matter of putting down words, writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.

You can bargain for better wages, you can bargain for higher productivity bonuses. But once the bargain has been struck, then you must enter into the spirit of the agreement, and put in an honest day's work for an honest day's wage. There must be no fooling around, work means discipline. Singapore's success depends on the spirit in which workers, management and government, all three, enter into the spirit of cooperation, necessary for prosperity.

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls

There are two things you can do with your head down — play golf and pray.

There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.

There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.