Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
~By May Sarton ~
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 ~
I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.
~By Josh Lucas ~
I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
~By Max Weinberg ~
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
~By Alfred Jarry ~
It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.
~By Arthur Lydiard ~
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
~By Stephen Covey ~
It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
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 ~
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
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 ~
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
~By Bum Phillips ~
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
~By Brandon Lee ~
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
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 ~
During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
~By Augusto Pinochet ~
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
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 ~
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 ~
The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
~By Mike Ditka ~
I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
~By Matthew Modine ~
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
~By Edwin Percy Whipple ~
Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
~By Ed O'Neill ~
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 love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.
~By Joel Grey ~
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
~By John Boorman ~
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
~By Steve Jobs ~
Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
~By Mike Johanns ~
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
~By Steve Winwood ~
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 ~
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
~By Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ~
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 ~
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
~By George W. Bush ~
You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
~By Harold Ford ~
Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.
~By Mike Ditka ~
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
~By Tertullian ~
Discipline is not a nasty word.
~By Pat Riley ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
~By Blair Underwood ~
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.
~By Stockwell Day ~
At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.
~By Norman Lamm ~
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
~By Richard Holloway ~
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
~By Jahangir Khan ~
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 student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.
~By Philippe Perrin ~
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.
~By Jeff Miller ~
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
~By Venerable Bede ~
My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
~By Ruth Hubbard ~
One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
~By Carl Zuckmayer ~
I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
~By Ishmael Reed ~
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 ~
One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
~By Amar Bose ~
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.
~By R. Lee Ermey ~
Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.
~By Donald McKay ~
The disciplined are free.
~By James Cash Penney ~
In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
~By Mark Foley ~
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
~By Robert De Niro ~
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
~By Lao Tzu ~
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 ~
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
~By George Washington ~
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
~By Peter Marshall ~
A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
~By Bessie Head ~
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 ~
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
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 ~
And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.
~By Jason Statham ~
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
~By Max Gluckman ~
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
~By Ethel Merman ~
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 ~
I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.
~By Donna Shalala ~
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
~By Alan Rickman ~
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
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 ~
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
~By John Steinbeck ~
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
~By Courtney Thorne Smith ~
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
~By John Dalton ~
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