“There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.” WorldDevelopmentDisciplineTestsIntelligentSevere Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition
“When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."” KnowsMindKindSaidSelfMatterEnoughProblemUsedBrainSeriousDisciplineConsciousIntelligentPatternsDefinitionsHandleSelf DisciplineCompulsionNeurosisConscious MindFlippedSelf Will Author:Marianne Williamson
“Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles is in fact a constructive effort to understand unity, we are able to revise our view of the situation, moving from reprimand and prohibition to the intelligent channeling of his efforts and the fostering of discovery.” FactsAbleMovingViewsEffortSituationFlowerDisciplineDiscoveryAppreciateIntelligentUnitySandCastlesConstructiveProhibitionKnockingChannelingToddlerFosteringDestructivenessSand Castle Book:Whole child, whole parent Source: Whole child, whole parent
“If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.” IfsWayDoeWould BeChurchCasesFeetDisciplineDemandNormalSolutionsIntelligentRaisesComplexesExplanationDesignerClassroomSubmitOrganismsHypothesisTheologianImmuneIntelligent Design Author:Richard Dawkins
“Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy. For me as an artist the challenge of having a child is having to think ahead a lot more. Which in a way is good, since I sometimes lack self-discipline.” ThinkingWayChildrenSelfSometimesJoyArtistChallengesDisciplineIntelligentSelf DisciplineContagiousPlayfulness Author:Olof Arnalds
“I've talked a lot about the discipline and high, high skills of the British actors as seen from my Danish point of view. But I also have to say that Peter is unusually intelligent, humble and a good friend to everyone.” ActorsViewsDisciplineSkillsIntelligentHumbleBritishPoint Of ViewPeterGood FriendDanish Author:Lone Scherfig
“Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses the soldier, then will he, if training has formed those necessary mental reflexes, surrender himself to the will of his leader; this is where leadership supplants discipline without destroying it.” IfsDoeFightingLeaderFireStageDisciplineActivityTrainingIntelligentAimInstinctSoldierCrowdsSurrenderObedienceLatterDestroyingLiteralReflexes Author:J. F. C. Fuller
“We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.” MenWorldImportantTimeFightingDifficultUnderstandingCourageAcceptanceDutyDisciplineIntelligentObedienceResolutionDifficult Times Author:Ernest Hemingway
“While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.” WellsMaySeemsMightValuesRiskTypeDisciplineEssentialsIntelligentInvestingDeterminedCharacteristicsInvestorsAversionRisk Aversion Author:Seth Klarman