Quotes About Discipline

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.

The hard work is done. The training is done. I'm not gonna say too much.

I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.

I get up every day and work, regardless of if I have a job or not.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

I still work out on a daily basis.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents' work ethic.

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

Don't use your bedroom for work, unless you're a prostitute.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

You just want to have new experiences and work with new people, so the idea of working with someone outside of your discipline is exciting.