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“I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later. Writing code that is cross-platform from the start requires more discipline, but I find it is worth the effort.”

Ifs Writing Trying Might Effort Discipline Crosses Window Code Platforms Macs Linux Writing Code

Author:Ryan C. Gordon

“It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.”

Way May Moving Desire Easy Community Silence Objects Sweet Discipline Shapes Bird Tradition Crosses Wings Caught Bitter Wander Paradox Void Twisted Back And Forth Navigate

Author:Wendy Farley

“Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.”

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.”

Men Young Courses Growing Ought Habit Discipline Crosses Weak Young Man Awake Vigor Course Of Life

Book:All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne

Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne

“Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.”

Mean Has Beens Would Be Spirit Healing Discipline Crosses Objectives Confession Our Relationship Metaphysical Subjective Transforming Relationship With God Therapeutic

Author:Richard J. Foster

“Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.”

Art Courses Process Practice Fashion Discipline Crosses Competition Architecture Collaboration Fluidity Pollination

Author:Zaha Hadid

“As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine is more interpretive. But it is the love for the text that is there, and that is what makes the whole adventure of reading and studying and sharing worthwhile.”

Two Different Whole Reading Study Mines Adventure Materials Discipline Research Crosses Worthwhile Frank

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”

Jesus Christ Church Grace Discipline Jesus Christ Crosses Repentance Christian Living Confession Preaching Disciple Communion Discipleship Baptism Cheap Grace Christian Discipleship

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”

“Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.”

Country Running Natural Ability Taught Discipline Lessons Training Crosses Competition Valuable Diligence Aptitude Valuable Lessons

Author:Nelson Mandela