"The surest test of discipline is its absence."
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"Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior."
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"In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving."
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"Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life."
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"For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline."
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"Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."
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"Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings."
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"The discipline of fasting releases the anointing, the favor, and the blessing of God in the life of a Christian."
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"Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all."
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"Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined."
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"Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut."
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"Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline."
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"If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work."
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"The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child."
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"Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers."
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"You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life."
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"It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint."
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"Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities."
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"Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in."
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"Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over."
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