Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Discipline must be maintained.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God.

Chinua Achebe

Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal.

Carolina Herrera

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

Bill Keller

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

Bill Keller

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Edward James Olmos

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do

Edward James Olmos

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them

Dana Perino

It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

David J. Anderson

An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.

Clayton Christensen

Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.

Clayton Christensen

The outsourcing gurus have been driving the theory, and they are saying everybody ought always to do this. But it is really contingent on where you are on the spectrum from "not good enough" to "more than good enough," relative to each tier of the market.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

Kevin Bacon

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

Iyanla Vanzant

Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough.

Gary Oldman

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

George Bernard Shaw

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Buddy Rich

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Buddy Guy

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Carlos Santana

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

Billy Joel

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

Billy Joel

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Billy Joel

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

Dick Dale

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Chad Smith

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs