“I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.” MovingPurposeNaturalPracticeBalanceDisciplineInnovationDown AndManagementImpactConstantCriticalCustomersSpeedProductivityAuthenticityIntimacySignificanceSlow DownDiligenceAccuracySlowing Author:Kevin Cashman
“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.” EnoughCuttingTalentDisciplineConstantHopefullyMeatDullKnives Book:Danse Macabre Source: Danse Macabre
“Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.” CompassionDisciplineConstantArtisticEthicalImaginative Book:Art as Medicine Source: Art as Medicine
“I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.” GivingBelieveBookReadingI BelievePerspectiveHabitDisciplineConstantMagazinesGood BookScholarly Author:Stephen Covey
“Super fidelity requires constant investment and discipline, but great companies know how to do that.” KnowsCompanyKnow HowDisciplineConstantInvestmentFidelityGreat Company Author:Kevin Maney
“There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.” DesireArtistSacrificeDisciplineConstantPreparationTransfersBeing An ArtistSportsman Author:Matt Smith
“Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.” HabitDisciplineMoralityConstantCleanlinessWatchfulness Author:Victoria Ocampo
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.” PeopleThinkingWayKindImportantRealCareAbleLostUnderstandingRaceAttentionSacrificeAwarenessDisciplineInfiniteConstantSettingEducatedSettingsAlternativesRatsPettyDefaultUnconsciousnessRat RaceReal Freedom Author:David Foster