From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
~By Steve Winwood ~
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.
~By George Woodcock ~
I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well.
~By Frank Scott ~
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.
~By John McCain ~
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
~By Michel Foucault ~
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
~By Edwin Percy Whipple ~
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.
~By Anthony Braxton ~
For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
~By Anthony Doerr ~
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.
~By James Young ~
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
~By Alan Perlis ~
I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
~By John Irving ~
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
~By Barbara Ann Scott ~
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.
~By Joel Grey ~
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
~By Abraham Robinson ~
I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.
~By Donna Shalala ~
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
~By Bjork ~
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
~By William Brewster ~
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
~By Georg Solti ~
Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.
~By Michelle Trachtenberg ~
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
~By Hannes Alfven ~
I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.
~By Tom Glazer ~
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
~By Clint Eastwood ~
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.
~By R. Lee Ermey ~
I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
~By Geddy Lee ~
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
~By Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus ~
I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
~By William Feather ~
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
~By Adam Smith ~
Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.
~By Frank Luntz ~
Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.
~By Liam Gallagher ~
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.
~By Josh Lucas ~
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
~By Brandon Lee ~
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
~By Bo Bennett ~
It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
The surest test of discipline is its absence.
~By Clara Barton ~
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
~By Buddha ~
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
~By John Howard ~
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
~By John Malkovich ~
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
~By Roman Polanski ~
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
~By Ann Patchett ~
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
~By Bill Bruford ~
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
~By Francois Mauriac ~
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.
~By James H. Douglas ~
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
~By Henry Moore ~
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
~By Peter Marshall ~
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.
~By Piers Anthony ~
The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.
~By Bob Newhart ~
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
~By John Locke ~
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
~By Alfred Jodl ~
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
~By Hal Holbrook ~
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
~By Helen Hayes ~
I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.
~By Christine Baranski ~
It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.
~By Arthur Lydiard ~
As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
~By Valentino Rossi ~
I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.
~By Bob Graham ~
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
~By Alan Shepard ~
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
~By Blair Underwood ~
I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
~By Joe Paterno ~
You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.
~By William H. O'Connell ~
I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.
~By Rick Perry ~
If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
~By John Woolman ~
I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.
~By Enya ~
I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
~By Bob Richards ~
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