274 quotes found
“Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my ...”
“Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.”
“don't ever think that you're a single in total freedom,but think of combating the forces of lust.”
“In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade. T...”
“When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.”
“Good manners is the fabric that holds the community together.”
“Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.”
“Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesnt. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of ones craft, and there i...”
“... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.”
“It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated ...”
“Materialism wars against our souls in a twofold manner. First, it makes us discontent and envious of others. Second, it leads us to pamper and indulge our bodies so that we become soft and lazy. As...”
“Because the American people have traditionally taken a warlike, but not military, attitude to battle, and because they have always coupled a certain belligerence - no American likes being pushed ar...”
“When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have chea...”
“Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from...”
“Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditi...”
“For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would no...”
“Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.”
“Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.”
“Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.”
“Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.”
