Quotes About Discipline

It's got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention ad awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad, petty, unsexy ways every day.

Some answer or trick of the will: the ability not to think about it. What if everyone knew this trick but Claude Sylvanshine?

I'm not saying I'm able to work consistently out of the premise, but it seems like the big distinction between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It's got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is really freedom. That is being taught how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race - the constant, gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.

The medical attache partakes of neither kif nor distilled spirits, and must unwind without chemical aid.

The goose-step has always seemed to me to be an outlandish exhibition of the human being in his most undignified and stupid state.

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

Everything was going along just fine until Mama caught me cutting out of the circles of tin with her scissors. I always swore she could find the biggest switches of any woman in the Ozarks.

Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Cold steel and discipline and the slight capital surplus necessary to move and organise armies constituted the sole defences.

Blake: 'Think in the morning; act in the noon; eat in the evening; sleep in the night.

Dormía, corrientemente, una hora más por la mañana; me llamaban a las ocho en vez de las siete, y, si era posible, echaba una siesta de una hora después de almorzar. Esto me permitía trabajar continuamente hasta la una o las dos de la noche sin sentirme fatigado.

The structure of this army is curious. Every four men had a fifth man as leader; every nine men a tenth; every nineteen men a twentieth, and so on to every thousand; and it was agreed that the penalty for disobedience to the leader of any unit was death. Thus from the ground does freedom raise itself unconquerable.

more than is wise or philosophic; but I contain myself, when nothing is to be gained by giving way.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.