"Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination."
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"On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long."
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"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
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"Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness."
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"It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it."
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"If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program."
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"Discipline is doing within, while you do without."
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"If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free."
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"My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do."
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"Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses"
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"The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work."
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"By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will."
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"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier."
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"Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline."
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"I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests."
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"I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work."
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"I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control."
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"There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it."
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"Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals."
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"I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist."
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