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“Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!”

Source: The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...

“Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.”

Use Happens Secret Study Discipline Active Things Happen Introduction Make Things Happen

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.”

Men Mean Secret Discipline Behavior Ethics Code Rejects Poetry Is Capability Imperatives Falsification Categorical Imperative

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?”

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.”

Secret Share Discipline Percent Performances Increase Brands Holiday Quarters Fourth Earning Outstanding Victoria Inventory Victoria's Secret Fourth Quarter

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.”

Believe Self I Believe Secret Self Love Discipline

Author:Anne Lamott

“To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.”

Said Secret Economy Discipline

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.”

World Way Want Firsts Looks Ideas Faces Language Loses Secret Higher Discipline Exercise Letting Go Flow Impulse Aspiration Messengers Losing Yourself Carrier

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.”

Thinking Long Mother Father Parent Secret Discipline Died Glasses Longevity Whisky Father Died Mother Died

Author:Khushwant Singh

“Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door.”

“If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now. The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.”

Ifs Knows World Life Is Desire Purpose Secret Careers Support Discipline Integrity Core Diets Distraction Secret To Success Coherence Detours Superior Man

Author:David Deida

“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

“True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.”

Love Believe Self Love Is Secret Divine Discipline Mere True Love Refuse True Love Is Love Is Blind I Love You So Much Blind Love

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra

“The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”

Men Motivational Care Motivation Secret Discipline Take Care Motivated Self Discipline

Author:Alexander Paterson