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It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said.'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt hims...

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John CrowleyAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, the processes of coordination and disintegration foll...

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It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a m...

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...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the P...

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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached t...

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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weaknes...

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If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Lose...

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Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing materi...

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It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by st...

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What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and sil...

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Maria MontessoriCreative Development in the Child: The Montessori Approach

I work with a great deal of discipline, although I usually take on more than I can handle and often ...

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All empires fall, eventually.” “But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opp...

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You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is th...

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You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of pow...

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Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authori...

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Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of powe...

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All the things that are worth doing, take time.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot ac...

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Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon ...

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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled "Abafi" — The Son of Aba — a Servian tran...

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It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physi...

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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace an...

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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,2...

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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...

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Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghe...

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Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerve...

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All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature...

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Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning ...

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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and...

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We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look a...

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Samuel PepysThe Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given ...

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But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extr...

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Slavoj ŽižekIn Defense of Lost Causes

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They ar...

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Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will los...

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If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience a...

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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it ...

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If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and,...

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Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; y...

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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cen...

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T. E. LawrenceSeven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to rende...

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In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are go...

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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.

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Tom ClancyThe Cardinal of the Kremlin

I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you," she said, "but you forget the reason I ri...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask.""But you're the Answ...

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one...

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The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young gene...

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I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part ...

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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shr...

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While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns ...

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William WordsworthCharacter of the Happy Warrior

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study...

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"You become what you do most of the time."

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to one...

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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to ones...

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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is ...

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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from ...

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of educat...

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The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find ...

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In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they ...

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Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to h...

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Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success

Onde you bid farewell to discipline you day goodbye to success

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.