Quotes About Discipline

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

People mistakenly believe that if you do nothing but train you can only get better. You've got to work hard, but the harder you work the harder you must rest and relax.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

But you can't just sit around the fireplace and sip Cokes and eat pretzels and get an attitude of confidence. You have to put in hard work.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication