Top 100 Quotes About Disciplines
#2. You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. If I have to go after what I call the narrative disciplines, my best tool is a narrative.
Ideas come and go, stories stay.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#3. Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.
Henry Giroux
#4. Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.
David Christian
#5. You have to be confused," Dudley Herschbach, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist from Harvard, confessed, "before you can reach a new level of understanding anything." In many disciplines, especially
Ken Bain
#6. Through the ages, countless spiritual disciplines have urged us to look within ourselves and seek the truth. Part of that truth resides in a small, dark room
one we are afraid to enter
Matthew J. Pallamary
#7. As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
Valentino Rossi
#8. I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well.
Frank Scott
#9. With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
Kenneth L. Pike
#10. Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.
Joshua Bloch
#11. [God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.
Scott Hahn
#12. Think outside the square. Think for yourself don't just follow the herd. Think multidisciplinary! Problems by definition, cross many academic disciplines.
Lucas Remmerswaal
#13. I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.
Susan Howatch
#14. In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles.
Maria Popova
#15. These are the Disciplines that can change everything!
Mark Mullins
#16. Fashion is not a government, is not political; and yet it mantles the world much the way religion does. It includes and enforces its own rules, liturgies, disciplines. It has its own territories, its own language, its own hierarchy.
Richard De Combray
#17. I had lots of books, most of them nonfiction, because I'd always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.
Lauren Slater
#18. Holy habits are that: the disciplines, the routines by which we stay alive and focused on Him. At first we choose them and carry them out; after a while they are part of who we are. And they carry us.
Mark Buchanan
#19. We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.
Pattie Maes
#20. Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.
John Kinsella
#21. The saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.
Wei Wu Wei
#22. I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
Oleg Deripaska
#23. I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.
Eric Kandel
#24. Sophisticated meditative disciplines, healing practices, cognitive and emotional trainings, conflict resolution techniques - he used them all to awaken his visitors to their own qualities of integrity, equanimity, gratitude, and forgiveness.
Jack Kornfield
#25. Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences , in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#26. Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
David Chang
#27. What are any of the disciplines but a way in which people trying to make sense of the world or the universe?
Joan Countryman
#28. Law gave me some structure ... all these rules and internal disciplines.
M. J. Hyland
#29. It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having
an approach and not an area of its own.
Leonard Krieger
#30. Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Stephen Covey
#31. The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.
Jerry Bridges
#32. All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure.
Swami Vivekananda
#33. Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification.
Richard J. Foster
#34. There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
Giacomo Leopardi
#36. Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.
Nicholas Negroponte
#37. Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.
Simone De Beauvoir
#38. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
Anonymous
#39. You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.
Mario Andretti
#40. God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
Richard Holloway
#41. Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.
David C. Novak
#42. Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
Patton Oswalt
#43. Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
John C. Maxwell
#44. I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.
Thomas Horn
#45. Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
Sivananda
#46. Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
Philip Zimbardo
#47. This exceptional ability to interconnect observations and ideas from different disciplines lies at the very heart of Leonardo's approach to learning and research.
Fritjof Capra
#48. Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
Vanna Bonta
#49. My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.
William A. Dembski
#50. What all disciplines have in common is a search for rules and a commitment to them. And what all great learners have is a deep appreciation for finding better rules and a commitment to keeping them. That is why great learners are careful about what commitments they make and then keeping them.
Henry B. Eyring
#51. The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.
Chris Hedges
#52. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
Jim Rohn
#53. If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?
Mark Twight
#54. Triathlon is a very friendly sport. You can make friends quite easily. You don't have to be the most talented person. I was never outstanding at any one of the disciplines, but if you're dedicated and you're willing to put the time in, you can really achieve some good results.
Helen Jenkins
#55. Man, to Lewis, is an immortal subject; pains are his moral remedies, salutary disciplines, willing sacrifices, playing their part in a drama of interchange between God and him.
Jocelyn Gibb
#56. I really want to be like my mom in some ways, because I already take a lot after her already. I really like the way she treats us and disciplines us, and I think that she's just great because of how she's balanced us and all of that.
Jenna Boyd
#57. Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
Patti Smith
#58. I've split my life between a few different disciplines.
Nick Offerman
#59. Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert Ryle
#60. The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.
Jim Rohn
#61. Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
Henri Nouwen
#62. Little disciplines compounded over time make a huge difference.
Orrin Woodward
#63. Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less actual therapy.
Jed Diamond
#64. It's time to make a decision: I will learn what disciplines are necessary to fuel my prayer life, and I will practice these disciplines regularly, without fail.
Bill Hybels
#65. The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time
Darren Hardy
#66. The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#67. The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.
Frank Leahy
#68. I've been teaching full-time for 41 years at small colleges, and I can't imagine what it would mean for me or my colleagues to be armed with handguns or rifles instead of books and a thorough knowledge of our chosen disciplines.
Jay Parini
#69. It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which the highest inquiry into meaning and ethics and beauty coincides with the largest-scale imagination of the nature of reality itself.
Marilynne Robinson
#70. Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.
Tony DiCicco
#71. Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important ... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.
Sophus Lie
#72. The scholarship of Christian academics isn't recognized as scholarship at all unless it conforms to the prevailing rules of scholarship in the academic disciplines. This forces Christian scholars to accommodate and blend in; even when their work is excellent, it isn't identified as Christian.
Greg Forster
#73. Those who think of metaphysics as the most unconstrained or speculative of disciplines are misinformed; compared with cosmology, metaphysics is pedestrian and unimaginative. - Stephen Toulmin
Sean Carroll
#74. Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.
Madeleine L'Engle
#75. I've learned a lot on the fly, and I think, actually, my academic and management consulting background has enabled me to quickly pick up on a lot of disciplines.
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
#76. School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines ... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
Ken Robinson
#77. Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas ... ?
Robert Gibbs
#78. It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don't do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way.
Philip Yancey
#79. I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.
Kathleen Norris
#80. It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected ... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.
Wolfgang Kohler
#81. No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more intangible and that is the motivation to pick yourself off the ground when you've been totally bloodied and smashed and say, 'Let's fight some more.'.
Jerome Hines
#82. I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.
Stephen Covey
#83. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
Rebecca Miller
#84. Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don't become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines.
Robert C. Martin
#85. 'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.
Pharrell Williams
#86. Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.
Richard Rorty
#87. Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
Yves Behar
#88. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.
Patti Smith
#89. The components of gratitude and truth, love and hope bring the realization of wonder. The disciplines of study, of reading and reflecting, of dialoguing in depth and praying with belief sustain the wonder.
Ravi Zacharias
#90. I am so glad that Jesus does not say, "Practice more spiritual disciplines." He says, "Come to me ... and I will give you rest.
Colin S. Smith
#91. A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.
David J. Delaney
#92. The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#93. When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."
Monty Roberts
#94. Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.
Ricky Gervais
#95. When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.
Simon Mainwaring
#96. Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
Andrew Weil
#97. Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.
Tony Robbins
#98. Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.
Dick Wolf
#99. Don't wait another day to start the small disciplines that will lead you in the direction of your goals!
Darren Hardy
#100. Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
