Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Breton

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

Anna Deavere Smith

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

Andre Maurois

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

John Sullivan

Win or lose, we're going to have discipline.

We've been winning everything lately and that's just a testament to the hard work and discipline these men possess.

Jamie Wyeth

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

James Young

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

Boethius

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Elihu Root

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

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

Edward Gibbon

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

David Hilbert

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

David Dixon

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.

Armstrong Williams

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.

Anton Chekhov

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

Dean Koontz

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

Queen Latifah

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

Benjamin Graham

The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

Brian Tracy

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

Brian Tracy

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

Denis Waitley

Discipline is doing within, while you do without.

Denise Morrison

Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

Deepak Chopra

The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so forth - are irrelevant.

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.

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.

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.