discipline

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don__. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

Next morning I went over to Paul__ for coffee and told him I had finished. __ood for you,_ he said without looking up. __tart the next one today.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.

Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight.

Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.

Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success

No one makes it big without discipline.

Don't break your discipline, form it!

Live a life of discipline and live a life of celebration.

The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.

Anyone can stay up late, but only the disciplined can get up early.

You cannot build a strong team unless you teach your people discipline.

Don't you just love it when you're disciplining your kids and God whispers, "This is good. I hope you're listening so you can apply this same truth to your life.