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• The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

  Drew Carey

  Strong, Jobs, Marine

  Interview with Mary Buckheit, proxy.espn.com. September 9, 2002.

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• Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

  Amy Chua

  School, Kids, Self

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• I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Self, Choices

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• Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

  Joan Collins

  Devil, Age, Tone

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wisdom, Hard Work, Maturity

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• The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Fighting, Winning, Aquariums

  1908 Speech to Olympic Games officials, London, 24 Jul.

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• Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Team, Organization

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• 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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Reading, Mind, Firsts

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 23, 1969.

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• I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

  Penelope Cruz

  Yoga, Years, Ballet

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• The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

  Penelope Cruz

  Fall, Dancer, Keep Smiling

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Claire Danes

  Exercise, People, Psychology

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Men, Odds

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• 'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

  James Dobson

  Children, War, Book

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• A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

  James H. Douglas

  Retirement, Jobs, Home

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• I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

  David Duchovny

  Typewriters, Self, Loathing

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• Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Success, Funny Inspirational, Women

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• If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

  Clint Eastwood

  Gone, Might, Ifs

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• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  Umberto Eco

  Today, Scientist, Superstitious

  "God isn't big enough for some people" by Umberto Eco, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 27, 2005.

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• It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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• I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Love Is, Thinking, Knowing

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• Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

  Michel Foucault

  Jail, Prison, Individual

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• Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Graduation, Way

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Would Be, Littles

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• I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Community, Missionary

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.19, A&C Black

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• I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

  John Galliano

  Believe, Weakness, Cry

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