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“Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.”

Giving Believe Kind Certain Fighting Discipline Giving Up Absolutes Disaster Versions Formulas Mystical Never Giving Up Illusory Meaning Life Certain Knowledge

Book:Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

Source: Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

“I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.”

Thinking Believe Mean Use Body Beautiful I Believe Discipline Absolutes Instruments I Believe In Technique Goddess Definite Beautiful Body Gods And Goddesses

Author:Martha Graham

“Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.”

Habit Discipline Commitment Gains Absolutes Fixed Nonsense Absolute Freedom

Author:Richard J. Foster

“First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.”

Firsts Talent Discipline Conscience Absolutes

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!”

Ifs Knows Kind Mean Ideas Form Song Sound Know How Discipline Intellectual Absolutes Abandon Chaotic

Author:John Lydon

“I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”

Thinking Discipline Connections Absolutes Absolute Freedom

Author:Alan Rickman

“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”