- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discipline Quotes
On structure, endurance, and staying sharp.
These lines connect discipline to preparation, from college athletics that build endurance through tough challenges to companies run with a strict, military-style structure. Related: Focus.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd say we are traditionalist. We are heavy on discipline and relatively strict and structured. But we also make sure our children feel not just physically safe but emotionally safe, like they can come to us with anything.
- American Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the moment, I'm afraid that the discipline system doesn't give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I've been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020