Discipline Quotes

This one step - choosing a goal and staying to it - changes everything.

Sometimes you gotta work a little so you can ball a lot.

Service design is about imagining and developing multi-channel experiences that have a positive social, environmental or commercial return.

There is a point where procrastination becomes offensive; when your lack of discipline affects others.

Buy only from lists thoughtfully constructed before going into stores. Make yourself wait for things so that you appreciate them.

I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value.

Contrary to the prevailing myth, children who act “starved” for attention have received too much, not too little. They’ve come to depend on being the center of attention, and the more the Look-at-Me Beast is fed, the bigger it gets and the more demanding it becomes. Children who don’t get enough attention usually withdraw into their own little windowless worlds.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it ... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. Discipline is guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Discipline yourself and others won't need to.

Enjoy the tender care of your mother; while you embrace the discipline and advice of your father.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

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

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work.