Sobre la disciplina

“Because what is a human being? Part of a community – the community of gods and men, primarily, and secondarily that of the city we happen to inhabit, which is only a microcosm of the universe in toto.”

“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.”

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”

“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”

“Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.”

“And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.”

“If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.”

“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”

“Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

“Moderate fortune has a name that is fairest on the tongue, and in practice it is by far the most beneficial thing for mortals.”

“Religious tolerance is something we should all practice however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.”

“The strong man is not the one who can overpower others; the strong is the one who controls himself when angry.”

“Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, try to inhabit the speaker’s mind.”

“Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.”

“Practice yourself, for heavens sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.”

“I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.”

“You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.”

“Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”

“False scheduling to match the patron's desired date is much more common in our discipline than elsewhere in engineering.”

“Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.”

“The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.”

“Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.”

“There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.”

“Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.”

“Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice.”

“The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.”

“Habit makes all things bearable.”

“The mind is hard to check, swift, it flits wherever it lists; to control it is good. A controlled mind brings happiness.”

“Error is discipline through which we advance.”

“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”