"If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music."
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"The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning."
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"People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it."
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"Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field."
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"Passion produces the best discipline."
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"One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises."
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"Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines."
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"A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline."
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"The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him."
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"In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history."
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"With self-discipline, all things are possible"
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"When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines."
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"Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause."
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"I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church."
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"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power."
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"Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers."
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"I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it."
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"If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to that consciousness from which you will be able to study the mind and remain unmoved by any of its wild gyrations. Otherwise the facts observed will not be reliable; they will not apply to all people and therefore will not be truly facts or data at all."
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"No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on."
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"If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter."
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