“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.” MindLongHardOpportunityIndividualSimpleGreaterAchieveExampleDesignHard WorkDisciplineEasierDegreesImpactSimplicityFasterRangeEfficientExecutionElegantAppreciatedEleganceIngenuityFeatsSimplificationSimplicity And Elegance Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“While most of today's jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline,organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.” PeopleTwoTodaySchoolJobsYoungGreaterDisciplineSkillsOrganizationManagementDecadesToleranceFrustrationStayingInterpersonalInterpersonal SkillsStay In School Author:James P. Comer
“Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.” IfsGivingChildrenRealBoysGreaterTeacherDisciplineAdvantageFemaleDignityMalesMoodSuperiorsCommandContactEthicalUniformityPhysical Strength Author:G. Stanley Hall
“Becoming people of integrity and honesty does not occur quickly or all at once, nor is it merely a matter of greater personal discipline. It is a change of disposition, a change of heart. And this gradual change of heart is one that the Lord accomplishes within us, through the power of His Spirit, in a line-upon-line fashion.” PeopleHeartDoeMatterSpiritLinesLordGreaterFashionHonestyBecomingDisciplineIntegrityAccomplishDispositionHonesty And IntegrityChange Of HeartGradual Change Author:David A. Bednar
“Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.” IfsSelfStatesSpiritualGoalResultsGreaterHigherDisciplineStandingSelf Discipline Author:Ming-Dao Deng