Famous Quotes & Sayings

These players will know even before they sign, the player handbook will state, that we have rules about no facial hair and their hair being trimmed. They have to be good role models for the kids in the stands. What (the Loggers' rules) show are good discipline and I think a lot of them will be happy that they have rules.

Geoff Hoon

This has happened in Kosovo. Fresh evidence is being discovered all the time.

Nikola Tesla

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

John Wooden

Discipline yourself so others won't have to.

John Wooden

Discipline yourself - so others don't have to.

John Wooden

You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion.

John Ruskin

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

John Ruskin

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

John Polkinghorne

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

However, it is premature and inappropriate for us to discuss this further.

Joan Collins

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.

Jimmy Nail

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

Jimmy Iovine

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

Louisa May Alcott

When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps.

Jimmy Buffett

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

Jim Rohn

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

Jim Rohn

Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.

Jim Rohn

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Jim Rohn

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

Jim Rohn

The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.

George Lucas

One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.

Emanuel Steward

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

Joan Crawford

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

John O'Donohue

The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true.

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

John Dewey

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

John Berger

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Johan Huizinga

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

Joe Harris

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

Joan Miro

I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.

Jimmy Wales

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.