#discipline

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#discipline #motivation #change

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

— Neil Gaiman

#inspirational #truth #writing #inspirational

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ↗

— John Dalton

#day-to-day #discipline #fiction #fiction writing #highly

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

#believe #cry #discipline #human #i

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#best #culture #degree #discipline #get

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#appropriate #discipline #inventions #player #such

The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#analytical #blended #career #character #choose

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline. ↗

— Haim G. Ginott

#parenting #violence #parenting

I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It's a kind of discipline. ↗

— Amy Ray

#different #different things #discipline #down #going

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#campaign #disciplined #ever #good #i