Top 336 Disciplines Quotes & Sayings

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

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Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Acting and directing are two separate disciplines that rarely mix.

The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

A keystone habit leads to other positive habits and disciplines. These positive traits start a chain reaction that produces other positive outcomes. The presence of these important habits help you become more faithful in other areas of your life. On the other hand, the absence of these key disciplines can impact you negatively.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.

How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?

Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.

The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Just a few daily disciplines make a big difference

I've split my life between a few different disciplines.

You always have to be available for people, and you have to be clearly stating what you want to see, in so many disciplines, all at the same time.

[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

The Olympic movement has made a conscious attempt to make sports and disciplines urban in nature.

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

The Spiritual Disciplines are things that we do. We must never lose sight of this fact. It is one thing to talk piously about 'the solitude of the heart,' but if that does not somehow work its way into our experience, then we have missed the point of the Disciplines. We are dealing with actions, not merely states of mind.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.

Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.

In the stunt world, fights and vehicles are often two different disciplines.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

Though my first love is cricket, I was never away from any other disciplines too.

People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

I was looking for a way to lose a little weight and discovered MMA and its disciplines, and I fell in love with it.

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.