“One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.” HumansStatesCertainHuman BeingsFailingGreatnessBuildingDisciplineOvercomingArmyEmpiresSuperiorityHierarchyEmpire State BuildingEmpire State Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.” HumansTogetherSpiritualValuesDisciplineWorldlyHuman ValuesSpiritual Disciplines Book:Education in human values Source: Education in human values
“I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.” BelieveHumansPersonsI BelieveCryDisciplineWeaknessI Believe InRight Person Author:John Galliano
“You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If you recognise this, you can resist the urge to buy into a rally and sell into a decline. It’s also helpful to remember the power of compounding. You don’t need to stretch for returns to grow your capital over the course of your life.” IfsNeedsHumansRememberCoursesGrowsHuman BeingsReturnDisciplineSellsInstinctImpulseUrgesHelpfulDeclineTemperamentRecognise Author:Irving Kahn
“[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.” IfsHumansWellsSometimesWould BeHumanityNextAnimalLevelsAttitudeSubjectsStudentsDisciplineArguingConventionalColleaguesLaddersNext LevelBiologistHaughty Book:An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas