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“As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.”

Thinking Years Use Young Next Quality Boys Needed Discipline Chairs Dozen Neurotic Cheaper Use Of Time

Author:Ridley Pearson

“There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.”

Culture Needed Discipline Demand Clamor

Book:Literary Essays

Source: Literary Essays

“Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.”

Believe School Order Needed Discipline Cameras Officials Public School

Author:Paul Weyrich

“People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.”

People Ifs Kind Ideas Ends Sometimes Principles Needed Discipline Eating Good Ideas Snacks Eating A Lot

Author:Michael Pollan

“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.”

“What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.”

Ideas Sometimes Found Creativity Creative Needed Discipline Structure Limitation

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline”

Important Culture Needed Discipline Integrity Ethics Transparency Probity

Author:Vinod Rai

“When I started out on my pilgrimage, I was using walking for two purposes at that time. One was to contact people, and I still use it for that purpose today. But the other was as a prayer discipline. To keep me concentrated on my prayer for peace. And after a few years I discovered something. I discovered that I no longer needed the prayer discipline. I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument through which only truth can speak.”

People Years Stills Two Use Today Purpose Speak Prayer Praying Needed Discipline Walking Instruments Contact I Pray Pilgrimage

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.”

Made Sometimes Running Able Taught Needed Discipline Swim Constraints

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the federal government has money-creating powers it can, in fact, be very damaging if it runs a series of budget deficits. With the state government in the United States, they don't have money-creating powers. The automatic discipline imposed by the fact that they are in a common monetary unit and don't have control over the money power means that the balanced budget restriction is less needed.”

“I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.”

Long Self Done Stories Night Focus Pieces Needed Discipline Performances Details Theatre Leap Self Discipline Leap Of Faith Small Pieces Movie Making

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.”

Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin

“Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."—Dan B. Allender, PhD”

Source: To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future

“What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.”

Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“What is needed is never to be had without price.”

Needed Discipline Commitment Ontology

Book:Tempus

Source: Tempus

“The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.”

Life Is Our Lives Needed Discipline

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley