Best discipline & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative.”

Thinking Sometimes Whole America Bits Nice One Thing Groups Dog Discipline Musical British Alternatives Soulless

Author:Jon Lord

“I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.”

Thinking Needs Company Discipline Models Performances Innovation Capture Metrics Typology

Author:Indra Nooyi

“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

“I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.”

Ifs Thinking Hands Individual Player Discipline Structure Add Hand In Hand

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.”

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Author:Gemma Ward

“Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.”

Thinking Achieve Discipline Highest Standards Good Discipline

Author:Cameron Mackintosh

“Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.”

Ifs Thinking Way Book Pleasure Discipline Vices Gamble Vice Versa Undisciplined Kraken

Author:China Mieville

“I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Names Christianity Discipline Please Angry Tired Islam Damage Divides Going To Work

Author:William P. Young

“I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.”

Thinking Looks Enough Attitude Discipline Truth Is Prejudice Checks Racist Good Enough

Author:Peter Hollingworth

“Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'”

Thinking World Way Needs Order Differences Seeing Discipline Making A Difference Environmentalism Places In The World Environmentalist Specialty

Author:David Suzuki

“Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Facts Passion Situation Know How Knowing Failing Judging Discipline Prejudice Know Yourself Adjustment

Author:Bernard Baruch

“Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.”

Thinking Life Whole Light Action Energy Emotion Practice Darkness Awareness Discipline Enlightenment Appropriate Ritual Mastery Self Mastery Egomania

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.”

Thinking Art Matter Beautiful Emotion Industry Discipline Taste Skills Art Is Proportion Works Of Art Beautiful Thoughts

Book:The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

“No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more intangible and that is the motivation to pick yourself off the ground when you've been totally bloodied and smashed and say, 'Let's fight some more.'.”

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Author:Jerome Hines

“I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disciplined as well.”

Thinking Wells Has Beens Discipline Bowling Batting

Author:Ricky Ponting

“I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.”

Thinking Trying Years Has Beens Important Opportunity Discipline Prison Sensations

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea is once you understand what excellence is all about, whether it's in painting, or carpentry or martial arts, that you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline. I think that all the different things that I do enhance all the other things that I do.”

Thinking Way Art Ideas Different Painting Discipline All Things Excellence Different Things Martial Arts Mma Very Famous Carpentry

Author:Joe Rogan

“I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to do with the raising my parents gave me and my sister - Veronica Cartwright, who's an actress in her own right.”

Thinking Kind Persons Parent Discipline Actresses My Sister

Author:Angela Cartwright

“I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.”

Thinking Writing Doe Hard Certain Discipline Intellectual Structure Sentences Mapping

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.”

People Thinking Children Ideas Home Seems Would Be School Order Strong Accepting Teacher Special Discipline Burden Punishment Obligation Very Strong Unfair Reluctant Corporal Punishment

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.”

Thinking Kind Important Goal Discipline Focused Hardest Obedient Perfectionist

Author:Natalie Portman

“SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.”

“I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”

Thinking Trying Answers Situation Discipline Tendencies Unclear Concise Inarticulate

Author:Dan Quayle

“The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can't say, 'this is really important to this community, and it's really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.' So, I think we have to have a discipline on this”

Thinking Needs Important America Community Security Ought Discipline Resources National Security Pentagon

Author:John Kasich

“I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.”

Thinking Trying Together Pieces Discipline Collaboration Collaborators Constantly Thinking

Author:Judith Weir

“Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.”

Thinking Writing Years Firsts Book Discipline Intellectual Evidence Tradition Forgiving Rate Feminist Scholar Masculine Jane Sisterhood Great Women Clingy

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.”

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Author:Maynard James Keenan

“I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.”

“I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.”

Thinking Want Ideas Form Results Support Achieve Design Color Discipline Opposites Response Predetermined Hesitant

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Those who think through possible outcomes with discipline, forge connections, in so doing, to other cosmi in which those outcomes are more than mere possibilities. Such a consciousness is measurably, quantitatively different from one that has not undertaken the same work and so, yes, is able to make correct decisions in an Emergence where an untrained mind would be of little use.”

Thinking Mind Littles Different Use Would Be Able Decision Consciousness Possibility Discipline Connections Mere Outcomes Emergence

Book:Anathem

Source: Anathem

“Discipline enables you to think first and act second.”

Thinking Firsts Discipline Self Control Self Discipline Restraint Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Self Restraint Discipline And Self Control

Author:Joyce Meyer

“All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, `This is the only area where I let down.` Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.”

Thinking Men He Man Discipline Areas Spheres Naive Interdependence Interconnectedness Interconnection Let Down

Author:Jim Rohn

“I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can.”

Ifs Thinking Kids Young Sports Discipline Involved Lessons Keep Going Get Involved

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Discipline is important as long as you're having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that's why I don't have any grey hairs.”

Thinking Long Important Hair Discipline Enjoyed Good Times Grey Having A Good Time Grey Hair

Author:John Zorn

“As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.”

Thinking Trying Mean Hard Practice Successful Focus Keys Discipline Get Better Changing My Life Always Working

Author:Lou Reed

“The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.”

Source: A Woman's Worth

“To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.”

Thinking Men May Littles Play Winning Women Discipline Very Good Heroism Imitation Renounce Little Women

Book:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“I do think that all economies need a sense of fiscal discipline especially over the midterm and if you are in the middle of a debt crisis you can't borrow your way out of a debt crisis. That's logically impossible.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Economy Impossible Middle Discipline Crisis Debt Midterms Debt Crisis

Author:Stephen Harper

“I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don't happen again.”

Thinking Trying Children Littles Sometimes Happens Bits Discipline Involved Little Bit Fairs Our Children Punishment Your Children Bad Experiences

Author:Archie Manning

“History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.”

Thinking World Should Writing Important Play Use Shows Dream Moral History Reader Discipline Errors Reactions Tendencies Falsehood Versus Mixtures What's Important Writing History Power Play

Book:Heart Mountain

Source: Heart Mountain

“There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Order Pay Balance Discipline Stealing Work Life Balance Work And Life Balance

Author:Seth Godin

“I think a successful company is one where everybody owns the same mission. Out of necessity, we divide ourselves up into discipline groups. But the goal when you are actually doing the work is to somehow forget what discipline group you are in and come together. So in that sense, nobody should own user experience; everybody should own it.”

Thinking Should Together Goal Forget Company Successful Groups Discipline Missions Divides Users User Experience Successful Company

Author:Donald A. Norman

“People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.”

People Thinking Want Years Certain Sports Amount Discipline Shapes Prepared Lifestyle Decent Resolution New Year Contests Bodybuilding New Year's Resolutions

Author:John Cena

“My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.”

Ifs Thinking Strong Parent Discipline Conviction Bars Very Strong Tape Singles Soundtracks Grunge Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Adam Pally

“I really want to be like my mom in some ways, because I already take a lot after her already. I really like the way she treats us and disciplines us, and I think that she's just great because of how she's balanced us and all of that.”

Thinking Way Want Mom Discipline Treats My Mom Balanced

Author:Jenna Boyd

“I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.”

Thinking Running Form Suffering Discipline Redemption Pushing Push Yourself

Author:Naomi Benaron

“I don't think I'd ever want to direct. I don't think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like to have, and I don't want my hair color to not go grey during that process.”

Thinking Want Process Color Hair Discipline Direct Grey

Author:Liana Liberato

“By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work even if they don't feel like it. Anybody can get maudlin and decide to write poetry at 11 at night; the question is, can you do it at 8:30 on a Monday morning..?”

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Author:Clive Barker

“When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.”

Thinking Men Different Left Discipline Prison Aggressive Arrogant Wrath Grapes

Author:Nelson Mandela

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