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“If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.”

Ifs Knows Littles I Can Would Be Running Can Do Hell Too Much Discipline Eating Complexes Overweight

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading… I know this will sound like a cliché, but the single most important reason that people lose money in the financial markets is that they don't cut their losses short.”

People Ifs Knows Important Reason Would Be Sound Loses Loss Cutting Emotional Keys Discipline Financial Making Money Trading Financial Markets

Author:Victor Sperandeo

“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

“[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.”

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

“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

“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.”

Ifs Should Self Problem Would Be Values Energy Democracy Taken Failing Discipline Leaving Substance Lacking Self Discipline Commonwealth Personal Problems

Author:Margery Wilson

“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

“A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such control at an early age may be bought at a price which few parents today would be willing to pay. The slow education for control demands much more parental time and patience at the beginning, but the child who learns control in this way will be the child who acquires healthy self-discipline later.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.”

“If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.”

Ifs Would Be Hate Water Morning Fire Discipline Republican Caught Conservative Bob Georgia Buckets Congressman Hate Myself

Author:Barney Frank

“Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.”

Mean Has Beens Would Be Spirit Healing Discipline Crosses Objectives Confession Our Relationship Metaphysical Subjective Transforming Relationship With God Therapeutic

Author:Richard J. Foster

“The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.”

“If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.”

“It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of co-labouring with God to accomplish good things and advancing his Kingdom purposes.”

Way Would Be Spiritual Purpose Courses Prayer Discipline Lows Good Things Accomplish Kingdoms Spiritual Life Advancing Voltage

Author:Dallas Willard

“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.”

“Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal.”

Trying Self Would Be Certain Numbers Produce Discipline Ideals Best Work Imposing Timetables

Author:Chinua Achebe

“The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline. The rocks of the Anthropocene haven't been deposited yet, really.”

Humans Would Be Influence Rocks Havens Planets Discipline Controversial Geology Retrospective

Author:Kenneth Lacovara

“Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which their philosophers were philosophizing. This has consequences both trivial and important. If you systematically read the last fifty years of the major journals in our discipline you would be amazed at the amount of redundancy. Most of this is unacknowledged because most of us know so little about the history of our discipline and even the subfields in which we work.”

Ifs Knows World Years Littles Important Philosophy Would Be Lasts Political Natural Amount Discipline Majors Consequence Philosopher Fifty Amazed Journal Natural World Redundancy

Author:Dale Jamieson

“The military taught me discipline, how to problem solve, teamwork and loyalty, a perfect parallel to the kitchen. If we could take that and bottle it, it would be a amazing thing.”

Ifs Problem Would Be Perfect Military Taught Discipline Solve Loyalty Kitchen Bottles Teamwork Parallels Amazing Things

Author:Robert Irvine

“If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.”

Ifs Might Would Be Acting Study Discipline Physics Animation

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.”

World Littles Made Would Be Fighting Courses Causes Lines Discipline Illusion Optimism Ultimate Changing The World Pockets Worthwhile Portions Drizzt Drizzt Do Urden

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.”

Ifs Men Would Be Success Millions He Man Grew Discipline Income Pity Millionaire Pitiful

Author:Jim Rohn

“To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.”

Would Be Able Success Discipline Road To Success

Author:Paul Cummings

“Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.”

Feels May Would Be Care Sports Discipline Be Good Motivational Sports Cabbage

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.”

Ifs Would Be Science Choices Sports Discipline Essentials Intellectual Accounts Competition Intellect Defined Welfare Scholar Ruined Nomad Specialty Withdrawing

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.”

Needs Would Be Form Tree Discipline Protection Hindrance Criticise Saplings

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

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