Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

John W. Gardner

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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.

Matthew Modine

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

Maria Montessori

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

Maria Montessori

Discipline must come through liberty.

Maria Montessori

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

Paulo Freire

Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but in the stirrings of those who have been challenged, in the doubt of those who have been prodded, and in the hopes of those who have been awakened.

Paul Zane Pilzer

How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.

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.

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.

John Ruskin

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

Michelle Yeoh

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that.

Michel Foucault

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

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.

Last year, we had a team full of young guys that didn't understand discipline. That's why we were 2-14. It's no secret.

Learning music is about teamwork and discipline, ... You can do it in a lot of ways, like sports and music. It's never too early to start that.

Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.

Nick and John are very good with the kids. They teach them well. There not just getting in there and swinging the swords around. Fencing instills a lot of discipline in them.

Never will you see your wrong, when you always see that youre right.

I apologized to my team for my lack of discipline, and then I went on the radio and apologized there. It reflects poorly on the program and I think we have a good program.

Kelvin Sampson

I'm a huge proponent of weight training. We lift at 6 because of the work ethic required, the discipline and doing the right thing. It makes them accountable. It makes them be on time.