Discipline Quotes - Page 17

• Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Military, War, Army

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• Productivity isn't magic. It's discipline.

  Darren Hardy

  Magic, Productivity

  Darren Hardy (2015). “The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride”, p.155, Greenleaf Book Group

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• ...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

  Michael Crichton

  Humility, People, History

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• Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

  Kathy Freston

  Cutting, Denial, Diets

  "3 Reasons Your Diet Isn’t Working" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.

  Mark Hulbert

  Past, Long, Investing

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• The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Choices, Intellectual, Essentials

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• To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress.

  William Wilberforce

  Thinking, Progress, Trials

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.

  R. D. Laing

  Thinking, Smell, Self

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• Discipline is the bedrock of character.

  Phil Pringle

  Character, Bedrock

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• Herzog and Malick both have this very unique naturalist intentionality to their process. It's about creating the mood, creating the focus and having discipline, but not prescribing what the performance was supposed to be. Neither of them are really directing their actors into a performance.

  Sam Pressman

  Unique, Creating, Focus

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Curtis Hanson

  Typewriters, Self, Yarn

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Pursuit, Disconnected, Has Beens

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• 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.

  Doug Sweetland

  New Experiences, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Sports, Reading, Musical

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a bit. We're trying not to be fixed, we're trying not to be fixed to any one thing, any one gender, any one spiritual discipline, and any one race even; we're just trying to wing it beyond that. So it's a new gesture really, just another interpretation.

  Tilda Swinton

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Artist

  "‘Doctor Strange’ Interview: Tilda Swinton Talks About Her Transformation Into The Ancient One". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. September 28, 2016.

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• I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

  John C. Maxwell

  Passion, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• Sometimes I hear people talk about discipline of self and I think, if you don't have passion, I might discipline myself for a week or two but only passion will hold me steady.

  John C. Maxwell

  Passion, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

  John C. Maxwell

  Passion, Thinking, Wonderful

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• I think passion gives you the energy to do what is right, and discipline makes sure you do what is right. So I look at them as kind of cousins maybe.

  John C. Maxwell

  Cousin, Passion, Thinking

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

  James W. Loewen

  World, Divided, Courses

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes who possess this drive are the ones I am attracted to.

  Giorgio Armani

  Athlete, Ambition, Effort

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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• We want experts, our finest people. We don't want people that are B level, C level, D level. We have to get our absolute best and the recommendations have to be a combination of defensive technologies tailored to specific agencies and every other discipline involved.

  Donald Trump

  Technology, Agency, People

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• 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.

  Kenneth Lacovara

  Rocks, Would Be, Influence

  "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.

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• I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the Governor's School, and they had it for different disciplines - science, math, performing arts. I auditioned and I got accepted, and it was an eight-week program away from home. I went for acting. I was 15, and I turned 16 while I was there, so that was a seminal moment for me. It made me realize the life of it, the discipline of it, and the joy of that discipline, where it was all we did.

  Zachary Quinto

  Summer, Art, Home

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.

  Luke Evans

  Stories, Actors, Wipe

  Source: www.elle.com

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