Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fripp

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

Robert Frost

Life is tons of discipline.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Thomas Piketty

There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

Robert Greene

There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where discipline and patience is almost impossible to develop.

Sarah Miles

An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline.

Rebecca Miller

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

Richard Rorty

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

Robert De Niro

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Ritchie Blackmore

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

Robert Owen

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

Will Smith

There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

Vivienne Westwood

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

Wayne Thiebaud

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Virgil Thomson

I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

Twyla Tharp

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

Twyla Tharp

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

Twyla Tharp

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

William Golding

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

Sonia Sotomayor

Diabetes taught me discipline.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline.

Georges St-Pierre

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

Horace

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Herbert Spencer

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Henry David Thoreau

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

Henry David Thoreau

As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

James C. Collins

You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.

James C. Collins

Discipline is consistency of action.

Fritz Scholder

You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.

George S. Patton

Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

George S. Patton

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

Jefferson Davis

The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave.