Discipline Quotes

Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

I don't want to have a singular vision. I don't have that kind of discipline. I love the randomness of my life - how I have five, six, seven projects going on at one time.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.

Life is tons of discipline.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

Discipline has been a key factor to my success.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline.

I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline

It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not.

Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.

Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then call men to do it.

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.

Sometimes discipline, which means "to teach," is confused with criticism.

The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own. - Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.

It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of these beautiful disciplines to the next generation.

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.