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Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back. -- Rachel Cusk
I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet. -- Mika Brzezinski
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. -- Brian Reynolds Myers
I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline. -- Idina Menzel
Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline. -- Kathy Freston
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. -- Hanif Kureishi
I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help. -- Sebastian Seung
I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human. -- John Galliano
I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time. -- Christy Turlington
Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance. -- John Van Hamersveld
I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions. -- Justin Trudeau
Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship. -- Neil Postman
First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies. -- Mario Monti
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power. -- Sarah Churchwell
I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.' -- Douglas Coupland
I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights. -- Daniel Boulud
My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness. -- Jonathan Maberry
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well. -- Rem Koolhaas
I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge. -- Joan Armatrading
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. -- Dave Brubeck
Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God. -- Herbert McCabe
Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality -- Albert Hadley
If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline. -- Bill Hybels
If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused. -- Jimmy Iovine
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. -- Brian Reynolds Myers
I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time. -- Chris Murray
Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline. -- Matt Chandler
There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required. -- Prince Andrew
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet -- Michael Brian Schiffer
Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline. -- John C. Maxwell
Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline. -- Joe Rogan
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable. -- Frank Shamrock
Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline. -- Danielle Trussoni
Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why. -- Criss Jami
Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world. -- Cesar Millan
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat. -- Samora Machel
The Daily Show was an incredible training ground for that kind of thing. It was all about discipline and generating material constantly. -- Ed Helms
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax. -- Nicholas Kristof
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values. -- John Ziman
Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right? -- Gene Luen Yang
Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart. -- Michael Josephson
Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise. -- Claire Danes
Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end. -- Garth Stein
I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time. -- Cameron Diaz
Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose. -- Ben Hunt
I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me. -- Ed Skrein
Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer. -- Rick Warren
TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself. -- Rose Byrne
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard. -- Cameron Mackintosh
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break. -- Anne Lamott
The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness. -- Joe Nichols
The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes. -- Danielle LaPorte
It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport. -- Elvis Presley
The best thing Clinton could do â?? I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure â?? is to shut up. He has no discipline. -- Barry Goldwater
Sometimes I hear people talk about discipline of self and I think, if you don't have passion, I might discipline myself for a week or two but only passion will hold me steady. -- John C. Maxwell

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