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“There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.”

Years Soul Eye Asks Language Simple Discipline Weary Through The Eyes

Book:The western home: and other poems

Source: The western home: and other poems

“The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.”

Persons Body Asks Pleasure Powerful Discipline Glory Tunes Strain Marathon Forsake

Book:Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great

Source: Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great

“In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour that pushes past conventional or evasive answers. It's nothing to do with acquiring a technical facility in an academic discipline.”

People Past Asks Answers Discipline Philosophical Persistence Academic Conventional Facility Rigour

Author:George Pattison

“A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it.”

Feels Book Shows Asks Hours Attention Half Television Reader Discipline Tweet Television Shows Half Hours Really Deep

Author:Ben H. Winters

“It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.”

People Writing I Can Asks Discipline Computer Leaving Desks Funny Things

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists. To know anything at all becomes a moral predicament. Aware that there is no such thing as a specialized effect, one becomes responsible for judgments as well as facts. Aware that as an agricultural scientist he had 'one great subject,' Sir Albert Howard could no longer ask, What can I do with what I know? without at the same time asking, How can I be responsible for what I know?”

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?”

“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.”

“People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.”

“Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'”

Want Success Asks Discipline Determine Engaged Destination

Author:Jim Rohn

“We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.”

Needs Giving Earth Order Asks Healing Consciousness Magic Land Awareness Listening Discipline Ritual Giving Back

Book:The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature

Source: The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature