Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah Arendt

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

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.

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.

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.

Isaac Asimov

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

Iris Apfel

I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

Homer

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

Harry S Truman

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

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.

Junichiro Koizumi

I am not disappointed in the president's position. (He) is enthusiastic about environmental issues, and there is still time to discuss this issue.

I don't think this is an important question right now. The final is my objective for the time being. I'm not discussing that.

Kyle Busch

Come up and talk to the driver about it. Help me out. I'm a young guy and I'm trying to learn. If you want to teach me something, come up and discuss it with me and tell me what I need to do differently.

Steve Squyres

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

Gordon Brown

Our financial discipline has made extra resources available.

The police officers received training. The officers had some discretion in terms of the minor violations. That discretion has been removed.

Bridget Kelly

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.

Carolyn Kizer

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

We discussed the Volcker report and its unsubstantiated references. We also discussed pressing foreign policy matters.

We discussed that already. We're obviously going to go out on good terms. I want to be a part of the organization in some capacity. Hopefully, when the dust settles here we can talk about those things.

We discussed some specific ideas about how we could make the process move ahead.

Mike Gundy

We discussed it in a mature manner, and he handled it with integrity,

Derek Jeter

We discussed it briefly for about five minutes and I haven't heard anything else about it, ... It wasn't like a threat or anything like that. It was just a letter from some guy. I haven't even thought about it again.