"The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic."
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"Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness."
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"... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity."
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"The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent."
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"Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!"
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"Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action."
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"Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there."
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"It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline."
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"In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing."
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"Just a few daily disciplines make a big difference"
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"There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve."
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"I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence."
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"All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect."
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"Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography."
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"Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos."
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"Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery."
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"For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit."
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"There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing."
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"You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline."
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"I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music."
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