#disciplines

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. ↗

— Amar Bose

#body #bring #could #disciplines #exceeded

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#balance #disciplines #execution #forget #four

By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car to be respected, or buy the latest thing to come along simply to satisfy the desire that has been formed and implanted in us. It is important to appreciate that these disciplinary mechanisms transmit values and truth claims, but not via propositions or cognitive means; rather, the values are transmitted more covertly...This covertness of the operation is also what makes it so powerful: the truths are inscribed in us through the powerful instruments of imagination and ritual. ↗

— James K.A. Smith

#desire #disciplines #imagination #marketing #ritual

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#art #because #centuries #disciplines #else

From matters as crucial as the death of Jesus, to those as mundane as eating and drinking, the Bible presents the glo ry of God as the ultimate priority and the definitive criterion by which we should evaluate everything. ↗

— Donald S. Whitney

#spiritual-disciplines #death

. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

So do not expect always to get an emotional charge or a feeling of quiet peace when you read the Bible. By the grace of God you may expect that to be a frequent experience, but often you will get no emotional response at all. Let the Word break over your heart and mind again and again as the years go by, and imperceptibly there will come great changes in your attitude and outlook and conduct. You will probably be the last to recognize these. Often you will feel very, very small, because when your eyes close for the last time in death, and never again read the Word of God in Scripture you will open them to the Word of God in the flesh, that same Jesus of the Bible whom you have known for so lng, standing before you to take you for ever to His eternal home. ↗

— Geoffrey Thomas

#attitude

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#art #away #complete #cut #deliver

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#coherence #disciplines #easily #facts #grant

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#himself #long #man #modern #modern war