Quotes About Discipline

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

The pen isn't really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Organization is the Devil's work.

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.