My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career. – Craig Venter
Everything is complicated about using concrete – the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid, what the timing is for the pours, how you keep it clean and neat to achieve a fine quality. – Annabelle Selldorf
The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I’m not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors. – Bob Newhart
My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others. – Armstrong Williams
The more you create, the more ambitious you become with your projects. Short films were a direct result of over 200 web series sketches and vlogs. After you create enough 2-minute videos, you start to wonder what else there is. Deadlines and discipline and quantity with a focus on quality have always been what keeps me going. – Anna Akana
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. – Charles Horton Cooley
Honestly, I’m blessed with good genes and a good sense of discipline – I eat whatever I want, but I eat very controlled portions and stop when I’m full. – Alice Greczyn
I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It’s a very important part of my personal discipline. – Bob Graham
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention. – Bill Bruford
Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves, therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. For he wounds, but he binds up, he shatters, but his hands heal. – The Bible Job 5:17-18
I used to have to beg and borrow £25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford ‘this’ or ‘that’ is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard. – Cameron Mackintosh
We just can’t shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it’s also fun. – Claire Danes
Democracy is liberty – a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy. – Chiang Kai-shek
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives. – Clint Eastwood
I’d like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It’s been my private discipline. – Alice Sebold
There wasn’t a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. – Alfie Allen
In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones. – Annalee Newitz
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
I hate committing myself to anything. It’s probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I’m probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time. – Cameron Diaz
Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well… it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life. – Anupam Kher
I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn’t proper to display certain very private emotions in public. – Carolina Herrera
If I wasn’t acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics. – Chris Hardwick
To become the kind of person you want to become, you’ve got to have discipline. It’s easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time. – Clayton M. Christensen
It’s just a matter of understanding what’s necessary and discipline yourself to do it. – Arthur Lydiard
We all naturally want to become successful… we also want to take shortcuts. And it’s easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice. – Apolo Ohno
I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction. – Alice Munro