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“I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.”

Feels Writing Persons Different Used Felt Discipline Inspired Mood Mature

Author:Donald Miller

“The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.”

“There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where discipline and patience is almost impossible to develop.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be used because it may be a meanes to prevent strokes and blowes, especially in ingenuous and good natured children. [Blows are] the last remedy which a parent can use: a remedy which may doe good when nothing else can.”

Kind May Children Doe Use Lasts Used Parent Middle Discipline Blow Remedy Strokes Corrections Good Nature Admonition

Author:William Gouge

“When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."”

“I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."”

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Author:William Eggleston

“My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.”

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Author:Richard Pryor

“I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the Governor's School, and they had it for different disciplines - science, math, performing arts. I auditioned and I got accepted, and it was an eight-week program away from home. I went for acting. I was 15, and I turned 16 while I was there, so that was a seminal moment for me. It made me realize the life of it, the discipline of it, and the joy of that discipline, where it was all we did.”

“I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.”

Sometimes Problem Used Discipline Honor I Realized Used To Be Racist Embarrassment

Book:Shrovetide in old New Orleans

Source: Shrovetide in old New Orleans

“I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?”

Ifs Ends Self Body Beautiful Used Mother Crazy Discipline Daughter Saved What If My Daughter Smarter Self Discipline Body Image Theoretical Anorexia Anorexics

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.”

Ifs Facts Used Lying Order Principles Study Discipline Telling The Truth Semiotics

Book:A Theory of Semiotics

Source: A Theory of Semiotics

“Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace”

Way Hard Remember Used Peace Silence Practice Environment Wonderful Discipline Castles Great Ones Chatter

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.”

Law Used Evil Doubt Stage Masters Discipline Bounds Rounds No Doubt Immature Saplings

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda