“Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.” ShouldMayAgeUnderstandingTermBoysDisciplineDegreesShould HaveRegardPenaltiesHarshSevereSeriousnessDelinquentsExcommunication Book:St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries Source: St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries
“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.” MindLongHardOpportunityIndividualSimpleGreaterAchieveExampleDesignHard WorkDisciplineEasierDegreesImpactSimplicityFasterRangeEfficientExecutionElegantAppreciatedEleganceIngenuityFeatsSimplificationSimplicity And Elegance Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.” WantCollegeDisciplineDegreesSlave Author:Terry Bozzio
“To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.” WorldEnergyResultsEmotionalDisciplineDegreesElementsHighestDanceNervousDancerConcentrationPossessed Author:Martha Graham