discipline Quotes

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.