"These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action."
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"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."
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"Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire."
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"Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions."
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"I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves."
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"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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"It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not."
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"Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down."
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"Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity."
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"Life is tons of discipline."
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"Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success."
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"I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments."
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"I do think that all economies need a sense of fiscal discipline especially over the midterm and if you are in the middle of a debt crisis you can't borrow your way out of a debt crisis. That's logically impossible."
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"[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists."
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"The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control."
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"It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour."
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"The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations."
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"I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There's a lot at stake."
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"My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing."
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"Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case you have failed by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never obtained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things that I could not have learned any other way. I discovered I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected."
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