#discipline

With self-discipline most anything is possible. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top. ↗

— Bob Richards

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Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

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Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches. ↗

— John Sununu

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By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books. ↗

— Ron Suskind

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Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility. ↗

— John Howard

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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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