Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mike Tyson

You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.

Mike Tyson

Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.

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.

Leroy Hood

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

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

Ravi Zacharias

Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged.

Pat Summitt

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

Amy Walter

If voters are upset about $3 gas and healthcare costs, they're ripe for a message that emphasizes fiscal discipline.

Jenny Lewis

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

It was fun having a musician on the set and then having to communicate with him-it was a completely new discipline which I found interesting.

David Dixon

It was pure and simply a lack of discipline in my life.

Brent Sutter

It's how we play as a team, the discipline in our own game.

David Ogilvy

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

Daisy Fuentes

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

Jack Nicholson

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

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.

He's a player who's got a major league arm, but lacks discipline.

good people, but unfortunately they didn't seem to have the management skills or the determination, the fortitude and the discipline to do the things that had to be done to get us back into a period of fiscal stability.

Frederick William Robertson

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Fred Brooks

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

Erica Jong

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

Jeff Flake

I have to be a little pessimistic. There is no real stomach for fiscal discipline right now.

I really had a great time playing for him. He was a great leader who instilled discipline in his players.

I really learned discipline. It will make you better.

Robert Quine

But I don't have the discipline to play jazz myself. At the time though, I was stupid enough to think I could be a jazz musician.

David Caruso

The key to success is having some discipline, ... You don't have to be rocket scientist.

The key to fiscal discipline is maintaining these results year after year. We need to put our priorities in order,

Mario Batali

The minimum time spent in any one restaurant should be a year, no matter what. You may feel that you're done earlier, but it's truly in a year that you learn the discipline and technical things you need to know about a particular restaurant.

Clint Eastwood

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Roman Romanenko

After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life.