Quotes About Discipline

I get paid to not laugh.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.

I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.

If you stay in your pajamas the whole day, you tend to get lazy and boring.

Life is not decided by lines on a palm but by the power of the will, hard work and discipline.

For me, I try not to think about it too much, because you find that if you think about it too much, then you start to panic at every little thing that goes on in training.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

You worked your paper route, mowed the lawn, then played golf all day.

Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.

There are just so many parallels between sport and business.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

Our approach to practice, I think, is paramount!

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.