"For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline."
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"There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering."
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"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."
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"Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding."
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"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater."
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"The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability."
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"I meditate twice a day. I meditate two hours every day. I spend at least an hour working out. So that's three hours every day of something mind/body discipline. Other than that: nothing."
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"Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort."
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"Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage."
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"Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind."
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"We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone."
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"I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to."
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"An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress"
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"The critical ingredient is a maverick mind. Focus on trading vehicles, strategies and time horizons that suit your personality. In a nutshell, it all comes down to: Do your own thing (independence); and do the right thing (discipline)."
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"The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?"
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"Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed."
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"Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued."
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"Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!"
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"Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't."
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"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
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