Discipline Quotes - page 3

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool. (Esther Williams)
It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon. View quote
Blair Underwood
I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor. View quote
Ishmael Reed
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. View quote
Jacqueline Bisset
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. View quote
Mike Ditka
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family. View quote
Patricia Ireland
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. View quote
Paul D. Boyer
I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else. View quote
Tom Glazer
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. View quote
Venerable Bede
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. View quote
David Rockefeller
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all. (Umberto Eco)
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. View quote
George Eliot
Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. View quote
Ayn Rand
Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it. View quote
Philippe Kahn
I hated school, didn't like the discipline. View quote
Gary Gygax
A prince must not have any other object nor any other thoughtà but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear. View quote
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge. View quote
Theodor Adorno
While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it. View quote
Anastas Mikoyan
I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly. (Julie Andrews)
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. View quote
Julie Andrews
I don't think he [ Josef Albers ] ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended... I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing – I didn't want color to serve me, in other words. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti