Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have demonstrated a high level of acquisition discipline in the past, and shareholders expect us to maintain that going forward.

Gene Sperling

This is about fiscal discipline and first things first,

What killed us early was a lack of discipline and what saved us late was playing with discipline.

Pushovers -- that's the word she used. It got to the point where no discipline was working, so we just threw our hands up, and the kids were just running the show.

Larry Brown

It's a tough loss. People start making a run at us and we feel like it's the end of the world. We just lack discipline when things get tough.

It wasn't Slap Shot. A lot of the minor league teams were getting into discipline and training. The old-time hockey was done. There was a new philosophy of being in shape, watching your weight, conditioning, riding the books, all these things had come in.

There's a lot of orientation that has to be done, because school nursing is a unique discipline.

I told our team we should have been up 10 at halftime. We didn't play with enough discipline in the second half. (Heath) just took over. He showed great fortitude and found his rhythm and got it going.

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.

George Washington

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

Jason Statham

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

Jason Furman

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

You need to be accountable for your own discipline. We're all grown men. We've all at least been on this earth for 21 years. We all know right from wrong. You need to be accountable to yourself and what you do and how you prepare.

You need a unified view of what's going on. If you can't impose structure and discipline on (developer) practitioners, you're subject to chaos.

Harry S Truman

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

Sun Ra

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

Sun Tzu

When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.

Samora Machel

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

Johan Huizinga

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

Henry Paulson

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 not threaten the overall system.

Helen Dunmore

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

Katherine Heigl

I don't have a lot of discipline.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became Homo sapiens. Sapiens became a human being, our minds very naturally segue into transcendence.

Nathan Myhrvold

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

Mike Krzyzewski

Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

John W. Gardner

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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.

Edward Tufte

The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.

Henri Nouwen

As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.