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“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.”

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable.”

Ifs Should Stills Bits Goal Sky Discipline Findings Pops Backgrounds Evening Hopefully Something New Intriguing Venus Unimaginable Bland Evening Sky

Author:Karl Barry Sharpless

“The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.”

Trying Liberty Enemy Cases Issues Discipline Intellectual Backgrounds Individualism Versus Untruth

Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

“I'm a prostitute. Do you know what, it really is basically I just really like to work! I'm thrilled that there's a variety. It's why I got into this business to begin with, because I really don't have the discipline or intellect to have a 9-to-5 job. But I came from a classical music background and I merged that to theatre, it kind of opened up the door to a lot of different possibilities.”

Knows Kind Different Jobs Doors Possibility Discipline Intellect Theatre Backgrounds Variety Do You Know Classical Music

Author:Jason Graae

“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”

Character Desire Discipline Philosophical Backgrounds Temptation

Author:John Locke

“Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.”

Wells Art Discipline Institutions Backgrounds Boards Appropriate Appetite Supporter Imposing

Book:The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking

Source: The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking

“If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.”

Ifs Men Body Values Courses Animal Produce Personality Higher Discipline Capable Relation Scales Backgrounds Excellent Urges Faculty Progressive Display Appreciated Physical Body

Author:J. C. Kumarappa

“I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.”

Giving Persons Sports Discipline Appreciate Structure Incredibles Backgrounds Carrie

Author:Estella Warren

“English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be.”