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“An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.”

Life Is Artist Discipline Discovery Intense Application Working Life

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.”

“An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.”

Process Simple Audience Feet Discipline Prove Capacity Settling Application Stillness Orange Prove It Settling Down Gum Buttocks

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.”

Men Self Hands Found Stars Brain Genius Discipline Normal Average Productions Nonsense Application Self Discipline Successors

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to spend time to develop clarity of vision. What do you want your life to look like five, ten or fifteen years from now? Oftentimes, it's not so much a lack of discipline but a lack of vision.”

Want Needs Years Looks Vision Five Amount Discipline Ten Practicals Clarity Endurance Application Fifteen End Times Spend Time Fifteen Years Clarity Of Vision

Author:Rory Vaden

“What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.”

Giving Next Understanding Answers Steps Discipline Capable Practicals Enjoyment Application Live In The Present Next Steps

Author:Alan Watts

“If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has given mankind a metrical and computatory art essential to the effective conduct of daily life, that mathematics admits of countless applications in engineering and the natural sciences, and finally that mathematics is a most excellent instrumentality for giving mental discipline... [A mathematician will add] that mathematics is the exact science, the science of exact thought or of rigorous thinking.”

“I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.”

Believe Real Facts Science Wealth Subjects Discipline Intellectual Accounts Appreciation Dues Application Prestige Flowering

Author:Derek Barton

“Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.”

Art Hard Done Past Life Is Artist Order Perfect Vision Lovers Discipline Skills Lonely Relation Injustice Intense Presidential Application Deprivation Working Life Sissy Idlers Dilettantes

Book:Creative America

Source: Creative America