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“Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.”

Three Lines Development Discipline Dull Strict Sonnet Fourteen Rhyming Sonatas Couplets Recapitulation

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.”

Three Development Discipline Periods Critical Mathematical Formal Naive

Author:David Hilbert

“The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.”

Thinking Understanding Teach Influence Development Discipline Band Elements Army

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.”

World Development Discipline Tests Intelligent Severe

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.”

Men Young Values Fighting Evil Boys Development Discipline Exercise Training Remains Young Man Boxing Prize Manly Attending

Book:Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport

Source: Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport

“Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.”

Children Character Problem Understanding Communication Development Discipline Behavior Acceptable Problem Solving Emphasis Child Development

Author:Ellen Galinsky

“Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.”

Knows Book Character Happens Simple Stage Development Discipline Meetings Prepared Track Things Happen Smooth Editing Be Prepared Tricky Meeting Someone

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.”

Persons Values Culture Social Natural Views Moral Development Discipline Members Mark Responsible Aim Worthy Traits Efficiency Desirable

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.”

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Author:Timothy Keller

“Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.”