“If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.” IfsKnowsLittlesI CanWould BeRunningCan DoHellToo MuchDisciplineEatingComplexesOverweight Author:Michael J. Fox
“Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.” I CanStudentsDiscipline Author:Marva Collins
“I'm going to try to stay buff as long as I can, but it takes a lot of discipline and staying away from your favorite junk food!.” TryingLongI CanDisciplineStayingJunkYour FavoriteJunk Food Author:Tobey Maguire
“SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.” PeopleIfsThinkingI CanSelfPurposeRealizingEmotionQualitySuccessfulOne ThingWillingDisciplinePromiseEssentialsCommitmentMilesAlternativesExtrasSuccessful PeopleSelf DisciplineSchedulesDeadlineUnsuccessfulExtra MilePersonal Qualities Author:John C. Maxwell
“I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.” PeopleThinkingFirstsLittlesI CanSelfPlayFactsTogetherOpportunitySportsUnderstandingGoalRolesIssuesImagineTeamTaughtVictoryDisciplineHealthyFemaleImportanceCompetitionDefeatGenderFactorsDiscussionWorking TogetherGovernorsSelf DisciplineAbsentGraciousVictory And DefeatHealthy Competition Author:Sarah Palin
“Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts.” YearsWellsMeanI CanDisciplineExpertsRiceSushi Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.” MenMindI CanKidsNiceDisciplineDamnBack And ForthBounceKids Love Author:J. B. Smoove
“On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together.” ThinkingI CanEnoughTogetherFormReadingCreativeTeachingDisciplineBenefitsCompositionSpillsBlurSaturation Author:Gregory Pardlo
“While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.” I CanMatterHandsDiscipline Author:William Golding
“If I can think of anything, but nothing specific that I have learned, is the time management and discipline and stay focused. Mentally focused to be aware. Our training sessions are mentally packed. We work on very specific game plans and strategies.” IfsThinkingI CanGamesPlansDisciplineTrainingManagementStrategyFocusedTime ManagementI Have LearnedSessionStay FocusedGame Plan Author:Chris Algieri
“I can't imagine how you can find the discipline to be emotionally detached reporting on a revolution, the winds of which are blowing right down the hallways of the publication you work for. That's like an orthopedic surgeon trying to perform arthroscopic surgery on their own knee. It's possible, but it's hard to see through all the pain.” TryingI CanHardPainImagineWindRevolutionDisciplineKneesSurgerySurgeonsPublicationDetachedHallwaysOrthopedics Author:Paul Saffo
“It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.” PeopleWritingI CanAsksDisciplineComputerLeavingDesksFunny Things Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.” ThinkingI CanSelfFormStupidDisciplineIncrediblesStupiditySelf Discipline Author:John Malkovich
“The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit the present moment and accept everything that happens without fear, knowing that what goes around comes around (the law of karma). Ethical morality and self-discipline represent the good ground, or stable basis. Mindful awareness is the skillful and efficacious grow-path, or way. Wisdom and compassion constitute the fruit, or result. This is the essence of Buddhism [...]” WayI CanSelfMomentsHappensLawGrowsResultsCompassionAcceptingKnowingPathClearAwarenessBuddhismDisciplineMoralityConscienceEssenceBasesFruitKarmaPresent MomentEthicalStableTruthfulSelf DisciplineTranquilSkillfulGoes Around Comes AroundLaw Of Karma Author:Surya Das
“As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.” StillsI CanHardEnoughMovingLyingHouseArmsDisciplineShotsRoundsSpotsRemarkableStayingTargetStomachSteadyHuntingFoxesRifles Author:Richard Page
“It's about staying ahead of what happened yesterday. When you just in your mind think...nothing's going to stop me. I don't care how I felt yesterday. I'm gonna go out today and do what I know I can do. If you can just tell yourself...no I'm stronger than this, no I'm better than this, no I'm faster than this, no I'm tougher than this. I think you can make it through situations that your never thought possible.” IfsThinkingKnowsMindI CanCareTodayFeltCan DoSituationHappenedDisciplineStrongerDon't CareYesterdayFasterI Don't CareStaying Author:Sanya Richards-Ross
“Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody. Look at that lovely girl I've just shot!” WantWellsLooksMeanI CanGirlHurtDisciplineShotsLovelyWickedLovely Girl Author:Claude Rains
“I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine — and before we know it our lives are gone.” KnowsMenI CanWantedGoneOur LivesSeaSecurityDisciplineWorshipSouthWheelsRoutineSailFling Book:Wanderer Source: Wanderer
“[Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is.... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.” WorldLongStillsI CanHomeKidsJobsEnergyLinesDadDisciplineDinnerHardestFulfillmentFatherhoodLong DayBeing A DadHardest Job Author:Brad Pitt