Quotes About Discipline

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit. —Aristotle

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Keith Park was a popular and persuasive man. He had quelled a near mutiny in 1918 by assembling the airmen and talking to them on random subjects and in such a monotonous voice for so long that all rebelliousness was destroyed by fatigue.

But after a little while I got used to the tedium, understanding that these parts of my work were as essential to the arabesques of the final pattern as the rest bars are to a symphony.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

We know how to behave! We've had lessons.

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

During my eighteen years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. —MICKEY MANTLE I

At the customary age of thirteen Blake was apprenticed to an engraver named James Basire in Great Queen Street near Covent Garden, less than a mile from home. The apprenticeship lasted for the usual seven years, during which he lived in Basire's house, usually with one or more other boys. The youths put in thirteen-hour days for a work week of seventy-eight hours, with only Sunday off, and that was usual too.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

To be sure, the cheder curriculum was narrowly limited, the pedagogical methods primitive: drill, repetition, and cracks across the knuckles with a pointer or ruler. But at a time when the overwhelming majority of humanity was illiterate, there was hardly a Jewish male over the age of five who could not read and write. The cultural impact and importance of this are for historians, sociologists, and educators to appraise.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

I will see every one of you in detention, first thing after school on Friday

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Are you a real writer? Then keep writing. And don't stop. Ever.

Someone with less talent who works hard often outperforms the gifted.

Today I resolve to take writing seriously, to keep going and never stop, to learn everything I can and make it as a writer.

When I was a young writer, I liked to imagine that I was paying someone for every word I wrote, rather than being paid for it; it was a fine way to discipline myself to use only those words I needed.

And Shelly wondered why Ivy lived by her lists.

Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.