Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Margulis

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Norah Jones

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

Nora Roberts

[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.

Nora Roberts

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

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.

You want to start a discipline. Get with the program. See what it's like to be in the investment markets.

These are not cookie-cutter businesses. They require unique discipline and mind set.

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.

Paulo Freire

No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics.

Philip Roth

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Peter Drucker

Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.

Paulo Coelho

Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.

May Sarton

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

Pushovers -- that's the word she used. It got to the point where no discipline was working, so we just threw our hands up, and the kids were just running the show.

Roman Romanenko

After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life.

There's a lot of orientation that has to be done, because school nursing is a unique discipline.

Mike Singletary

A lot of guys that played this game ... they had a lot of discipline, they had a gift,

A lot of the obvious problems have been fixed, and management has instilled some discipline in the company.

Donna Williams

They have fun and they learn about discipline. But they're also going to learn about teamwork and responsibility.

They handed down discipline through the school. It wasn't a major issue. It was more of an administrative issue. I'm glad we don't work that way.

Gene Sperling

This is about fiscal discipline and first things first,

It's a lack of discipline, a lack of maturity. These things are unacceptable. Now, we've got to turn the page.

It's all about intensity and discipline. If you don't want to work hard and do the little things it takes to be successful, you won't play. We're still working on that, but we've come a long way.

This plan is welcome. But fundamental problems relating to the discipline, training and accountability of the integrated brigades need also to be addressed as a matter of priority.

You need to be accountable for your own discipline. We're all grown men. We've all at least been on this earth for 21 years. We all know right from wrong. You need to be accountable to yourself and what you do and how you prepare.

You need a unified view of what's going on. If you can't impose structure and discipline on (developer) practitioners, you're subject to chaos.

Steve Earle

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

Mike Krzyzewski

Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

Rabindranath Tagore

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Temple Grandin

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.