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“By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.”

Way Book Fall Games Term Virtue Subjects Media Source Discipline Messages News Treats Access Reporters Default

Author:Ron Suskind

“The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.”

Writing Stills Subjects Listening Discipline

Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“[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

“Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.”

People Should Children Art Said Helping Artist Subjects Discipline Adults Capacity Sacred Conviction Innocence Irrational Art Education Baudelaire

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.”

May Stills Hard Games Sports History Fate Blood Subjects Hard Work Return Victory Discipline Gains Labor Blind Rewards Metaphor Weather Farming Seductive Quirks Visualizing

Author:Garrison Keillor

“School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.”

Should Ideas School Subjects Discipline Fluid Curriculum Fertile School System School Curriculum Interdisciplinary

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.”

Philosophy School Lines Teach Subjects Discipline Conversation High School University Establishment Idealist Conducting Elitist Compulsory

Author:Michel Onfray

“I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."”

Used Subjects Discipline

Author:William Eggleston

“Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.”

Two Study Taken Subjects Effects Discipline Capitalism Economics

Author:John Lanchester

“There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.”

Art Reality Subjects Fine Discipline Economics Climate Math Architecture Treated Engineering Fine Arts Snobbery

Author:Norman Foster

“I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.”

Wells School Subjects Discipline Awful

Author:Dallas Campbell

“Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote an entire working life to one particular discipline.”

Moving Subjects Fields Particular Discipline Intellectual Curiosity Range Diverse Working Life Intellectual Curiosity

Book:Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words

Source: Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words