Quotes About Discipline

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

I don't think I'm easy, but I think I'm quite a good worker.

People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

Figure out what's good for you, then create a liking for it. You've got to work at living.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

If you can't be bothered to work on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

My father was a man very much like Arthur Winslow. He was a very stern man and very much the authoritarian figure.

I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

I like to be organized, I like to stick to my schedule. That's how I stay focused.

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written.

I guess bowling is pretty mechanical. It's kind of a natural motion, but you have to stick within those mechanics.

As a new ball bowler, it's my job to stick to the basics.