“But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.” YearsCoursesTakenDisciplineOceanLifetimeAccomplishReachingDestinationSailPortDeep Ocean Author:Earl Nightingale
“Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.” PeopleTryingMadeMomentsActionJobsCan DoEmotionTakenPlansHappenedEventsDisciplineDistanceExtremesRageTemptedCarelessHowlCoolness Author:George Friedman
“If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.” IfsShouldSelfProblemWould BeValuesEnergyDemocracyTakenFailingDisciplineLeavingSubstanceLackingSelf DisciplineCommonwealthPersonal Problems Author:Margery Wilson
“Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.” Has BeensReasonTodayChristianProcessNaturalLinesStudyTakenFailingGenerationsDisciplineWeaknessSurpriseBeing TrueReason WhyAssociationSecularParallelsEvangelicalOur GenerationParallel Lines Book:Escape from Reason Source: Escape from Reason
“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.” IfsMenGivingShouldYearsMindYoungSpiritSocialConsciousnessTakenCollegeDisciplineTasteTrainingStandardsEnlightenmentLaborCatholicInsightReleaseFaithfulGentlemanVowCandorGive And TakeManlinessSportsmanEsprit De CorpsYoung Gentlemen Author:Woodrow Wilson
“You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.” DifferentWantedTakenDisciplineSpeedDrivenMore TimeVacationTime Off Author:Mario Andretti
“A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline - who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices - do not qualify to lead.” PersonsSelfChristianTurnsLeadershipLeaderTakenSacrificeDisciplineAuthorityRebelSelf DisciplineScornRigorShirkSpiritual Leadership Book:Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer
“Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.” TwoStudyTakenSubjectsEffectsDisciplineCapitalismEconomics Author:John Lanchester
“Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.” PeoplePainTakenDisciplineTrainDiscipleNurtureEnlighteningWholesale Author:J. Oswald Sanders
“When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.” KnowsEnoughDreamKidsWantedActorsActingLaughingTakenStupidSeriousDisciplineComicRealisingDaniel Day Lewis Author:Chris O'Dowd