Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kumail Nanjiani

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. Its specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

Haim Ginott

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

Jim Cantalupo

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

Jim Broadbent

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

Buzz Aldrin

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

Ishmael Reed

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Irvin D. Yalom

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Giacomo Leopardi

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

Harry S Truman

If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.

I can't teach them that game experience in the time I have them for the two years. What you can teach them is discipline. You can teach them how to play. And they leave here better players than the were when they came.

Howard Schultz

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

Howard Schultz

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

Isaac Asimov

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

Irving Babbitt

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Leonhard Euler

In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

Leonardo da Vinci

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Leroy Hood

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Natasha Leggero

For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.

Mark Hopkins

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Nathan Myhrvold

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

Nadia Boulanger

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Ken Blanchard

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one`s darker side ad one`s darker energies

Kostya Tszyu

If you want nothing, do what you want. If you want everything, develop discipline

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

Pablo Picasso

For a long time I limited myself to one colour—as a form of discipline.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

Michael Crichton

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.

Nick Offerman

I've split my life between a few different disciplines.

Marva Collins

Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

Pat Summitt

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.