Discipline Quotes - Page 27

• Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Mean, Space

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• The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Effort

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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• The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

  Bill Nye

  Media, Information, Academic

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Dream, Stupid, Taken

  "Chris O'Dowd: 'People try to set me up with their sisters'". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2011.

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• As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Teacher, Motivation, Creativity

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• The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

  Mike Pence

  Moving, People, Relief

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2010.

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• During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Thank You, Heart, Years

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• Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivation, Technology, Self

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• The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Fasting, Masters

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• I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

  Dave Ramsey

  Believe, I Believe, Financial

  Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.19, Penguin

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• 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.

  Ishmael Reed

  Honor, Racist, Problem

  Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

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• One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

  Bob Richards

  Motivational, Life Lesson, Athlete

  Bob Richards (2009). “The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph”, p.74, Revell

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• Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2017

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• In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Sports, Teamwork, Play

  "Linda Ronstadt a Solderada for a time such as this". Interview with Dr. Alan Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. June 18, 2010.

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• I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

  Salman Rushdie

  Morning, Jobs, Get Up

  "The Bookers' favourite". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Two, Race, Europe

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Cutting, Perfect, Shapes

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• I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.

  Jill Scott

  Kissing, Love Is, Important

  "Jill Scott: 'I was told I'd never have kids - my - son is due in 5 weeks'". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2009.

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• Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

  Samuel Smiles

  Wisdom, Real, School

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.343

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• The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Hype, Employment

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Football, Team, Party

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• There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

  Matt Smith

  Sacrifice, Artist, Preparation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Thinking, Hobbies

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• Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

  Patti Smith

  Photography, Thinking, Photographer

  "A Minute With: Patti Smith on her photography show". Interview with Julie Mollins, www.reuters.com. January 16, 2013.

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• Diabetes taught me discipline.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Taught, Diabetes

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