Best Disciplined Thoughts
317 Disciplined quotes by 280 unique authors
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Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?
— Patrick Henry
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I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded.…
— Pete Townshend
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The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially…
— Jerzy Grotowski
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You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.
— Bernard Malamud
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To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but I doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is ot…
— M. Scott Peck
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The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
— Drew Houston
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Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone,…
— Sammy Sosa
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I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization -…
— Wladimir Klitschko
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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule.…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power…
— John Dewey
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears…
— Louise Penny
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I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or…
— James Rollins
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I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.
— Donna Shalala
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Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and…
— Chuck Mangione
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My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
— Bobby McFerrin
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Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little…
— Gerhard Richter
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Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the…
— Dave Brubeck
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A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An…
— Emily Greene Balch
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
— Anne Enright
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I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which…
— David Gilmour
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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…
— Joan Armatrading
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Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.
— Donald Byrd
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When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way…
— Jim Cantalupo
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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
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I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now…
— J. G. Ballard
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