I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.
~By Josh Lucas ~
Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.
~By George Shearing ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
~By Herbert Read ~
Discipline is not a nasty word.
~By Pat Riley ~
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
~By William Feather ~
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
~By Peter Benchley ~
Error is discipline through which we advance.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
~By Anthony Braxton ~
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 ~
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
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 ~
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
~By Washington Irving ~
Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
~By Larry Holmes ~
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
~By Stephen Covey ~
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
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 is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
~By Yahya Jammeh ~
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
~By Jack LaLanne ~
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 ~
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
~By Lao Tzu ~
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.
~By Jeffery Veen ~
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 ~
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
~By Meryl Streep ~
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 ~
The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.
~By Jerome Hines ~
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
~By Peter Marshall ~
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 ~
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
~By Ted Stevens ~
The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.
~By Mike Pence ~
There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
~By Ricardo Montalban ~
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
~By Jim Rohn ~
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 ~
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
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 ~
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
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 ~
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
~By Clint Eastwood ~
There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.
~By Celine Dion ~
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
~By George Eliot ~
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. ~
Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.
~By David Blunkett ~
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
~By Ann Patchett ~
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
~By Russell Banks ~
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
~By Bum Phillips ~
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
~By Jim Rohn ~
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 ~
It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.
~By Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus ~
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
~By Robert De Niro ~
Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.
~By Donald McKay ~
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
~By Jim Rohn ~
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
~By Barbara Ann Scott ~
You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.
~By Lynn Davies ~
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 ~
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
~By John Kasich ~
To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.
~By Don Baylor ~
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
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 ~
I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.
~By Donna Shalala ~
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 ~
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
~By Courtney Thorne Smith ~
Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.
~By Tom Kite ~
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 ~
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
~By Steve Winwood ~
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
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 ~
Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.
~By R. Lee Ermey ~
However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.
~By Tim Holden ~
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
Discipline is remembering what you want.
~By David Campbell ~
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
~By Patricia Ireland ~
I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
~By John Malkovich ~
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 ~
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
~By Alfred Jarry ~
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
~By John Locke ~
Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
~By Mike Johanns ~
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
~By Roman Polanski ~
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 ~
We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.
~By Terrence Howard ~
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 ~
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