Quotes about Discipline

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

Discipline must conform to the nature of things in their suchness.

Physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life.

Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.

Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.

When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

I just tried to find a fine line between muscling in and staying relaxed.

In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to learn these piano pieces. I'm going to learn this sign language, and I'm going to do them all day every day, five days a week.' It was a totally physical thing.

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.