“Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.” ArtStoriesFormCuttingInformationDisciplineMessagesTinyAdvertising Author:Dick Wolf
“I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don't seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline or patience with having to follow a story that is really multi-leveled and science-fiction.” StoriesSeemsUniverseFictionAmountDisciplineScience Fiction Author:Marc Maron
“I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did Go, so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.” StoriesTypeDisciplineInsanePaceEfficiencyTelling Stories Author:Doug Liman
“In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my faux-oak desk, tap the On button on my Macbook Air, acknowledge the muse, and skip into the world where the story flows over the day and into the night.” WorldFirstsStoriesNightImaginationPerfectAirDisciplineHealthyBirdFlowFruitWanderDawnAcknowledgeBreakfastButtonsDesksMuseOaksSkipSaluteFauxMacbookMacbook Air Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
“His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.” SelfMatterStoriesHappenedDisciplineNo Matter WhatSelf DisciplineRoyalTypewritersYarn Author:Curtis Hanson
“With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.” KnowsPersonsStoriesActorsDisciplineCleanWipeSlate Author:Luke Evans
“Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.” StoriesTermDisciplineSticksEnormousNonfictionConstructs Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“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.” LongSelfDoneStoriesNightFocusPiecesNeededDisciplinePerformancesDetailsTheatreLeapSelf DisciplineLeap Of FaithSmall PiecesMovie Making Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.” ChildrenSelfStoriesChoicesParentDisciplineAdultsSelf DisciplineUpbringingGreat SuccessSuccess Stories Author:Amy Chua