Best Discipline Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative.”

Thinking Sometimes Whole America Bits Nice One Thing Groups Dog Discipline Musical British Alternatives Soulless

Author:Jon Lord

“I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.”

Years Wanted Five Discipline Scientist I Realized Narrative Five Years Neuroscience Labs Undergraduate

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“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.”

Discipline Photograph Release Portraits Shutters

Author:Matthew Modine

“I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.”

Thinking Needs Company Discipline Models Performances Innovation Capture Metrics Typology

Author:Indra Nooyi

“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.”

Whole Individual Discipline Prison Pursue Jail Mechanism Elsewhere Self Discipline

Author:Michel Foucault

“A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.”

Needs Book Novel Bears Discipline Mass Journalist Lazy Sofas Gummies Gummy Bear

Author:Louise Penny

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.”

Matter Understanding Discipline

Author:Arthur Lydiard

“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.”

Kind Wanted Practice One Thing Discipline Lessons Very Good Dues Piano Schedules Toronto Instructors Piano Lesson

Author:Geddy Lee

“As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.”

Thinking Years Use Young Next Quality Boys Needed Discipline Chairs Dozen Neurotic Cheaper Use Of Time

Author:Ridley Pearson

“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.”

Wells Character Able Jobs Careers Fields Students Particular Discipline Embrace Wide Variety Specialists

Author:Philippe Perrin

“Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.”

Way Inspirational Discipline Graduation Right Way

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.”

Needs Writing Trying Kind Book Different Play Discipline Down And Notes Different Things Tape Journal

Author:Amy Ray

“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.”

Ifs Knows Littles I Can Would Be Running Can Do Hell Too Much Discipline Eating Complexes Overweight

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.”

Ideas Hard Moving Fighting Knowing Hard Work Discipline Perfection Foundation Elusive Choreography

Author:Keri Russell

“Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.”

Care Race Support Emotional Discipline Office Survival Ill Income Permit Clothings Shelter Nurture Disabled Nursing Transportation Race Car Emotional Support

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.”

Done Able Responsibility Sacrifice Buddhism Balance Discipline Enlightenment Sense Of Responsibility Power Of Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.”

Mind Two Body Together Health Buddhism Discipline Gains Your Body Over You Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.”

Giving Body Study Meditation Health Buddhism Discipline Athletics Adept

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.”

Way Self Play Sports Perfect Movement Health Buddhism Discipline Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.”

Ifs Needs Mind Sports Serious Health Buddhism Discipline Accomplished Athletics Power Of The Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.”

People Discipline Incredibles Sean

Author:Josh Lucas

“Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.”

Cities Design Discipline Strategy Urban Innovative Transportation Singapore Urban Design

Author:Moshe Safdie

“By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.”

Way Book Fall Games Term Virtue Subjects Media Source Discipline Messages News Treats Access Reporters Default

Author:Ron Suskind

“I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.”

Wells Spirit Three Jesus Community Particular Discipline Missionary Three Things Seminary Jesuit

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.”

Knows Two Games Player Week Football Discipline Clubs Staff Preparing

Author:Graham Taylor

“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.”

Ifs Want Kind Enough Wish Achieve Discipline Anything In Life

Author:Armstrong Williams

“Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.”

Art Stories Form Cutting Information Discipline Messages Tiny Advertising

Author:Dick Wolf

“I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.”

Ifs Thinking Hands Individual Player Discipline Structure Add Hand In Hand

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.”

Thinking World Way Helping Grows Interesting Roles Discipline Incredibles Something Interesting

Author:Gemma Ward

“As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.”

Children Self Might Causes Society Position Students Discipline Limits Authority Resistance Obedience Conformity Apathy Discourse Rebellious Authoritarianism Abnegation

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics.”

May Doe Principles Democracy Society Produce Discipline Limits Authority Ethics Climate Tolerance Regimes Coexistence Irresponsibility

Author:Paulo Freire

“People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.”

People Inspirational Mind Successful Buddhism Discipline Approach Enlightenment Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The alternative to discipline is disaster”

Christian Discipline Christian Inspirational Disaster Alternatives

Author:Vance Havner

“We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?”

Ifs Art Earth Christian Fighting Discipline Battle Army Christian Inspirational All Time Strict Athletics Kindergarten

Author:Vance Havner

“There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.”

Want Christian Jesus Christ Pay Willing Discipline Jesus Christ Paid Endure Christian Inspirational Prize

Author:Vance Havner

“It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.”

Long Enough Compassion Divine Discipline Distance Long Distance Distance Relationship Long Distance Relationship

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.”

Trying Spirit Goal Discipline Exercise Rewards

Author:Edmund Vance Cooke

“To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two: Vacations!”

Needs Two Important Goal Discipline Luck Vacation

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.”

Feels Writing Persons Different Used Felt Discipline Inspired Mood Mature

Author:Donald Miller

“I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.”

Able Discipline Gun Clean Fascinating Owners Machinery Gun Owners Remington Glocks Marksmanship

Author:Bernie Mac

“Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.”

Thinking Achieve Discipline Highest Standards Good Discipline

Author:Cameron Mackintosh

“Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.”

Ifs Thinking Way Book Pleasure Discipline Vices Gamble Vice Versa Undisciplined Kraken

Author:China Mieville

“I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.”

Discipline Healthy Fingers Chickens Pigs Dessert Fries Food Love French Fries I Love Food French Love

Author:Holly Madison

“I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.”

Writing Felt Study Discipline Theology Elites Biblical Testament Ruling New Testament

Author:N. T. Wright

“I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Names Christianity Discipline Please Angry Tired Islam Damage Divides Going To Work

Author:William P. Young

“Martial arts has been a way of life for me since I was a young kid. It created a discipline and respect for everything. Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.”

Way Persons Has Beens Art Made Kids Young Discipline Martial Arts Mma Better Person

Author:Luke Rockhold

“In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it; but have left them as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of State or Church authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies.”

Matter States Government Found Left Church Religious Discipline Exercise Authority Constitution Independent Occasions Separation Of Church And State

Book:Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.”

Light Mother Father Discipline

Book:The World of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.”

Talent Discipline Luck Fortune Good Fortune Mesh Good Discipline

Author:Twyla Tharp

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