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“I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.”

Years Wanted Five Discipline Scientist I Realized Narrative Five Years Neuroscience Labs Undergraduate

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.”

Kind Wanted Practice One Thing Discipline Lessons Very Good Dues Piano Schedules Toronto Instructors Piano Lesson

Author:Geddy Lee

“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.”

“Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.”

Ifs Dream Would Be Wanted Discipline Enlightenment Sight Possession Daily Life Thank God Expansion

Book:All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart

Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart

“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.”

Different Wanted Taken Discipline Speed Driven More Time Vacation Time Off

Author:Mario Andretti

“Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer.”

Years Done Wanted Three Acting Discipline Ambition Ultimate Singers

Author:Amy Winehouse

“Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking.”

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Author:Jane Hirshfield

“I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.”

“I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.”

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Author:Ryan Montgomery

“There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.”

Thinking Wanted Certain Parent Amount Discipline Sitting Doing Nothing Sitting Around

Author:Paul Smith

“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.”

Knows Enough Dream Kids Wanted Actors Acting Laughing Taken Stupid Serious Discipline Comic Realising Daniel Day Lewis

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.”

World Want Needs Feels Kind Done Wanted Pain Evil Easy Sin Teach Courage Discipline Dignity Hardest Dirty Insanity Forgiven Hardest Thing Pointless Monstrous

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.”

Wanted Found Acting Proud Dad Discipline My Dad Be Proud Coming Back Being A Dad Proud Of Me

Author:Tom Hardy

“I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine — and before we know it our lives are gone.”

Knows Men I Can Wanted Gone Our Lives Sea Security Discipline Worship South Wheels Routine Sail Fling

Book:Wanderer

Source: Wanderer