“All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.” MenSelfPowerDisciplineCircumstancesExerciseIdealsFacultyMasteryEstatesAdjustmentSelf Mastery Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.” MenWorldTryingChildrenAgeGrowsAnswersGrowing UpGoes OnDisciplineAskingCuriosityUniversityBlowManageFacultyInvitedHostilityMonarchyParentalYale Author:Edmund Morgan
“Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.” CharacterOrderMoralDisciplineTrainingObedienceFacultyDeliberateMoldCultivationMoral Character Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches at the faculty club. In Russia it suggests the moral force of an art practiced against the greatest personal odds, as a discipline, solitary and intense.” ArtIdeasAmericaForceMoralPoetDisciplineClubsRussiaIntenseTiesFacultyLunchSolitaryOdds Author:Joseph Brodsky
“The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty.” ThinkingTermDisciplineDifficultyFacultyCurriculumSpecialtyGeneral Education Author:Louis Menand
“I've been on a faculty in a university, and I felt it was incumbent on me to deal with the Bible not as something I was attempting to convert people to, or to have them enter into my religious experience, but rather as an academic and scientific discipline.” PeopleFeltReligiousDealsDisciplineUniversityFacultyAcademicAttemptingIncumbentsReligious Experience Author:Hershel Shanks
“As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.” MenYearsMaySoulCertainBornDisciplineTrainingCapacityIncreaseMathematicalFacultyBelonging Book:Esoteric Christianity Source: Esoteric Christianity
“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.” IfsMenBodyValuesCoursesAnimalProducePersonalityHigherDisciplineCapableRelationScalesBackgroundsExcellentUrgesFacultyProgressiveDisplayAppreciatedPhysical Body Author:J. C. Kumarappa