Quotes by Discipline To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition. Arturo Sandoval discipline ambition reality What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be. Ashwin Sanghi creativity discipline ideas There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it. Astrid Lindgren hug discipline children What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at. Atul Gawande discipline nice skills I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do. Audie Murphy training discipline self As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me! Audrey Hepburn discipline art Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society. Aung San Suu Kyi discipline responsibility men 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. Aung San Suu Kyi discipline law order The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline. Ayelet Waldman discipline differences writing You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual. Baden Powell de Aquino individual discipline wisdom Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano. Barbara Ann Scott piano discipline exercise The outside-in discipline requires that you have an explicit customer-based reason for everything you do in the marketplace. Managers need to create what I call "customer pictures," verbal descriptions of customers that highlight the key customer characteristics and make those customers come alive. Although managers never know as much about customers as they want and need to know, the outside-in discipline requires that they construct customer pictures anyway, basing the pictures on whatever hard data they have plus hypotheses and intuition. Barbara Bund intuition discipline reason To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.' Barbara Bush discipline shapes writing It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else. Barbara Kingsolver funny-things discipline writing Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them. Barbara Kingsolver nonfiction discipline stories I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit. Barbara Kingsolver discipline writing night Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. Barbara Tuchman demand discipline order The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there's Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn't know anything about. He has no discipline. Barry Goldwater discipline letters thinking My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself. Barry Sanders discipline christian mother If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program. Bear Bryant alabama-football discipline successful «1234567891011»