Quotes by Discipline Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. Benoit Mandelbrot discipline sports science The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. Benoit Mandelbrot discipline choices intellectual The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. Bernard Baruch discipline freedom blessing Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear. Bernard Law Montgomery discipline influence mind To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else. Bernard Malamud discipline writing character When I was on tour, people would say "We don't need a value-based currency, we can go out and buy gold and silver with US dollars now." I mean that it is so utterly brain dead, because they miss the whole point: the reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things. Bernard von NotHaus discipline government mean The reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things. Bernard von NotHaus discipline government gold It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it. Bernice Johnson Reagon perspective discipline people I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun. Bernie Mac discipline able gun The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority. Bertrand Russell discipline desire needs Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. Bertrand Russell willpower discipline mind Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive. Bertrand Russell iron discipline creative For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy. Bertrand Russell philosopher discipline philosophy A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people. Bessie Head discipline attitude people Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs. Bette Davis discipline emotional art Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention. Bill Bruford discipline essence sound Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline. Bill Cosby consistency discipline children Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows. Bill Gates electric-shock discipline technology Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence. Bill Hybels discipline doe heaven If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline. Bill Hybels ive-learned discipline prayer «345678910111213»