Discipline Quotes

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.

His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

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.

You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so forth - are irrelevant.

Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.

From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.

I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

We all think that the answer to everything is to add more and to do more and to try more. Sometimes you have to have the discipline to say no and to believe in the process that you have established.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

You just want to have new experiences and work with new people, so the idea of working with someone outside of your discipline is exciting.

I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger

The key to willpower is "want-power". If U want something strongly enough, U will find the discipline necessary to do it.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

The Daily Show was an incredible training ground for that kind of thing. It was all about discipline and generating material constantly.

It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.

It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.

In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.

People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.