“The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.” ThinkingUnderstandingTeachInfluenceDevelopmentDisciplineBandElementsArmy Author:Maynard James Keenan
“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.” HumansHeartKindSufferingSocialPleasureVirtueStudySocietyInfluenceCrimeDutyDisciplineMetsActivityDifficultyGuiltActiveBehaveGenerousSpheresRestraintImprovingHuman HeartInclinationActive Life Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes ... Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...
“While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.” WellsGrowsLeadershipEffortInfluenceDependsDisciplineExerciseSelf ImprovementSizeImprovementSpheresSphere Of Influence Author:John C. Maxwell
“Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.” MenDoeHas BeensReasonActionTimeCommunityViolenceInfluenceDisciplineJudgmentInstrumentsThreatUniversityDefinitionsCeasePrimariesExpulsion Author:Richard M. Nixon
“The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.” CountryAttentionMoralTeacherInfluenceExampleDisciplineEnglandTownsSizeIronMagicianRailPunctuality Author:Samuel Smiles
“My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.” HeartLongCharacterPainMotherLiteratureInfluenceDisciplineTastePatientResolveAccurateChaptersMolding Author:John Ruskin
“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.” HumansWould BeInfluenceRocksHavensPlanetsDisciplineControversialGeologyRetrospective Author:Kenneth Lacovara