Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Erdrich

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

Johan Huizinga

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

Joan Crawford

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

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.

John Locke

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

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.

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.

Katherine Heigl

I don't have a lot of discipline.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became Homo sapiens. Sapiens became a human being, our minds very naturally segue into transcendence.

Josh Lucas

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

Luke Evans

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.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

Freya Stark

Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.

Gustav Mahler

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

M. Scott Peck

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

M. Scott Peck

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

Matthew Modine

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

Maria Montessori

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

Maria Montessori

Discipline must come through liberty.

Maria Montessori

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

Kevin Costner

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

It was just to see how I'd get on because I haven't got a particular discipline as well as the road and it was too good an opportunity to miss.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.