"For discipline is imposed not just on oneself……" — Philip Roth
"For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit."
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126 Quotes by Philip Roth
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
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The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
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Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look…
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I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your…
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if…
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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol,…
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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
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More Discipline Quotes
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you…
— Russell Banks
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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark…
— Roseanne Barr
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to…
— Bernard Baruch
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
— Dirk Benedict
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…
— Annie Besant
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
— Theodor Adorno
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage,…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
— Bjork
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