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“It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.”

Facts Dream Hands Turns Practice Forever Discipline Tools Distance Butterfly

Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.”

Writing Self Song Turns Novel Discipline Letters Crafts Kitchen Acquire Instruction Kitchen Sinks

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“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.”

Persons Self Christian Turns Leadership Leader Taken Sacrifice Discipline Authority Rebel Self Discipline Scorn Rigor Shirk Spiritual Leadership

Book:Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

“To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.”

Years Ideas Success Turns Interesting Business Company Technology Discipline Self Improvement Innovation Business Success Really Interesting Ipods Original Ideas Business Ideas Interesting Ideas Fledglings

Author:Steve Jobs

“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.”

Feels Turns Space Discipline Small Spaces

Author:Sylvia Plath

“Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all of which ultimately point to the right answer. Now Keynes, in 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,' set forth a hypothesis which was a beautiful one, and it really altered the shape of economics. But it turned out that it was a wrong hypothesis. That doesn't mean that he wasn't a great man!”

People Men Mean Beautiful Turns Interest Answers Progress Theory Discipline Shapes Economics Employment Great Men Economist Hypothesis Altered Right Answers Keynes

Author:Milton Friedman

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

“In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.”

Men Helping Body Young Turns Building Emotional Discipline Capable Ordinary Various Guides Young Man Ecstasy Mentor Manhood Ordinary Life Containing Boyhood Body Building

Author:Robert Bly

“If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.”

Ifs Inspirational Success Turns Sides Hours Ought Discipline Self Discipline Turn-on Your Side Bolts

Book:Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

“The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?”

“Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.”

Happens Turns Leadership Differences Leader Our Lives Discipline Basketball Disappointment

Author:Jim Rohn

“I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d'un biologiste." There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear.”

May Different Science Turns Differences Results Risk Doors Theory Discipline Criticism Remains Following Disappear Self Discipline Severe Laboratory Frogs Grenouille

Author:Frank Kermode

“If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.”

Ifs Inspirational Trying Looks Enough Turns Discipline Harder Good Enough Self Discipline

Author:Michael Jordan

“It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don't have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it's genetic.”

People Thinking Values Turns Blood Discipline Investing Leading Me

Author:Seth Klarman