"The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions."
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"In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!"
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"The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom."
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"If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile."
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"Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative."
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"Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it."
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"It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline."
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"I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organization is."
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"It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline."
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"Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself."
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"Living the 'easy' life today seems to make a 'difficult' life tomorrow."
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"I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently."
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"If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them."
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"Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that."
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"The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds."
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"Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, .. It's full of variables that are always changing."
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"The whole point is to discipline the mind."
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"To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live."
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"Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief."
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"It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others."
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