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.
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
Science is a wonderful discipline to which we are deeply indebted.
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.
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side he was kind of a rather stiff disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons responsibility and discipline and respect.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion self-discipline that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying with great rigor and discipline to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused dedicated disciplined.
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence the power you have over other people's lives.
Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you pervert and discipline your natural tastes civilize and sterilize you.
Respect your efforts respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt that's real power.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.