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Quotes About Discipline

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Siddhartha: "I can think, I can wait, I can fast.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Making a concerted effort to trade your short-term gratification for a longer-term payoff. Whereas everyone else wants to get credit and be "respected," you can forget credit. You can forget it so hard that you're glad when others get it instead of you—that
~ Timothy Ferriss
Disciplina igual a libertad"».
~ Timothy Ferriss
History as a discipline began as a confrontation with war propaganda. In the first history book, The Peloponnesian Wars , Thucydides was careful to make a distinction between leaders' accounts of their actions and the real reasons for their decisions.
~ Timothy Snyder
Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all. ~Shuhei Hisagi
~ Tite Kubo
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
~ Tobias Wolff
Strength through discipline! Strength through community! Strength through action!
~ Todd Strasser
Patience means restraining one's inclinations.
~ Tokugawa Ieyasu
After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.
~ Tom Brady
As the early memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) wrote, "Psychology has a long past, but only a short history." He meant that people have been thinking about human thought, emotion, intelligence, and behavior for thousands of years, but as a discipline based on facts rather than speculation psychology is still in its infancy. Even
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
As the early memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) wrote, "Psychology has a long past, but only a short history." He meant that people have been thinking about human thought, emotion, intelligence, and behavior for thousands of years, but as a discipline based on facts rather than speculation psychology is still in its infancy.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
It emerged from two other disciplines, physiology and philosophy. German Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) is seen as the father of psychology because he insisted it should be a separate discipline, more empirical than philosophy and more focused on the mind than physiology. In the 1870s he created the first experimental psychology laboratory, and wrote his huge work Principles of Physiological Psychology.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn't divinely inspired – it's hard work.
~ Tom Clancy
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
~ Tom Coburn
Police discipline certainly does occur; it just does not often lead to change.
~ Maya Wiley
To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.
~ John Madden
Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a real discipline because it is really a sheer act of will that you're creating something, and you're doing it by yourself.
~ Noah Hawley
Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
~ Naval Ravikant
You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
~ Satchel Paige
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
~ John Wayne
You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.
~ Rob Reiner
During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.
~ Lin Dan
I have never been offended. I don't know what it means. It's not that I disagree with it. I don't understand it. I've never had that feeling. I don't let feelings control my life. I'm more disciplined than other people.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos