"Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning."
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"When I live out of discipline, I'm admired - When I live out of passion, I'm contagious."
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"Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent."
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"There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school."
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"Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules."
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"What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds."
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"Persistence and discipline. Without those two, you have nothing, no matter how talented you are."
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"All freedom comes from discipline."
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"I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom."
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"Do you have to discipline yourself to have breakfast, lunch or dinner? Of course not; and so discipline - the usual concept of it - doesn't apply here. I had to discipline myself to learn English, but never to train."
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"People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition."
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"Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself."
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"As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!"
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"There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done."
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"Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline."
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"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way."
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"Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!"
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"Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a stimulant, a mode of perception, rather than a position or practice."
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"Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious."
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"A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals."
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