Best discipline & stills Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?”

Mind Stills Discipline Compulsion Coercion

“The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable.”

Ifs Should Stills Bits Goal Sky Discipline Findings Pops Backgrounds Evening Hopefully Something New Intriguing Venus Unimaginable Bland Evening Sky

Author:Karl Barry Sharpless

“The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.”

People Giving Stills Self Discipline Giving Up Humanism Refuse Experiments Spite Minorities Surround Refuge Self Discipline Brutality Ghetto Persecuted

Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.”

People Stills Past Party Consciousness Military Discipline Demand Survival Ethics Regard Fulfillment Soviet Shortcomings Military Discipline

Author:Filipp Golikov

“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.”

May Stills Hard Games Sports History Fate Blood Subjects Hard Work Return Victory Discipline Gains Labor Blind Rewards Metaphor Weather Farming Seductive Quirks Visualizing

Author:Garrison Keillor

“But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.”

World Stills History Discipline Authority Destruction Army Structure Peaceful Ruins Display Inclination Fanatics Provinces Antiquity Barbarians Roman Empire

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that.”

Stills War Enough Actors Bits Ability Levels Discipline Combination Great Ones

Author:Robin Williams

“Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.”

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Author:John Kinsella

“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.”

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

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

“To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards”

Should Firsts Stills Self Hard Teach Teacher Discipline Demand Harder Oneself Pupils Vigorous

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.”

Needs Stills Whole Helping Kids Guy Military Taught Discipline Golf Whole Life Finding Yourself

Author:Lewis Black

“The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.”

Stills Humanity Speak Prayer Silence Break Our Lives Becoming Discipline Holy Activity Down And Noise Contemplation Stopping Slow Down Reminding Break Through Slowing God's Presence

Author:Jim Wallis

“TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.”

Thinking Stills Different Tvs Discipline Pace Pace Yourself

Author:Rose Byrne

“I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.”

Stills Home Wanted House Team Military Dad Discipline Starting Ran Grades Nba Strict Starting Point And Off Going Home Point Guard

Author:Ryan Montgomery

“When I retired from the championships in 2012, I had finished in fourth place in the international division, second place in nationals, and first in our state three years in a row. This journey not only helped me overcome my fears, it taught me discipline and perseverance. The biggest medals were the friendships that I still enjoy today.”

“I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.”

Believe Stills I Believe Creativity Havens Discipline Infinite Theme

Author:Guy Laliberte

“Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.”

Want Stills Discipline Debate Ideology Economist Clouded

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.”

People Way Stills Reason Life Is Virtue Discipline Bounds Chosen Enjoyed Repression

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.”

“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.”

Stills I Can Hard Enough Moving Lying House Arms Discipline Shots Rounds Spots Remarkable Staying Target Stomach Steady Hunting Foxes Rifles

Author:Richard Page

“Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego.”

Men Stills Self America Natural Religious Attitude Struggle Environment Pride Habit Discipline Ego Meetings Species Passionate Self Discipline Ceo Bad Habits Conserving Overconfident

Author:Tom Chappell

“Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience.”

Stills Form Artist Reading Common Audience Reader Discipline Unique Rely Contracts Cooperation Conventions Cognitive Rely Upon Tacit

Book:Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist

Source: Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist

“Also, it's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning, it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system. There are very few people who can withstand the losses emotionally and still stick with the system. Probably only one in five hundred people has the necessary discipline to be successful.”

People Stills Able Winning Loss Successful Five Discipline Skills Hundred Sticks Critical Mathematical Being Successful

Author:Blair Hull

“[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.”

World Long Stills I Can Home Kids Jobs Energy Lines Dad Discipline Dinner Hardest Fulfillment Fatherhood Long Day Being A Dad Hardest Job

Author:Brad Pitt

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