Undisciplined Quotes - Page 2

• To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.

  George Washington

  Military, Men, Soldier

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783”, p.279

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• To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

  Roseanne Barr

  Writing, Discipline, Mind

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Technology, Arrogant, Benefits

  Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?

  George S. Patton

  Men, Discipline, Brave

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• I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

  Neil Gaiman

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• Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

  Ed O'Neill

  Football, Said, Camps

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• Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

  Meryl Streep

  Because I Can, Show Business, Shows

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• Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Anchors, Mind

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• Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

  Stephen Covey

  Happiness, Heart, Vacation

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• Perpetual emotion is the past time of the undisciplined mind.

  Ervin Seale

  Past, Mind, Emotion

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• I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Mind, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Stress, Worry

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• Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2013). “SUN TZU on the ART OF WAR”, p.31, Lulu.com

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• It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Character, Discipline, Track

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• Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.

  Karl Rove

  Stupid, Winning, Support

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys

  Michael Gurian

  Children, Boys, Needs

  Michael Gurian (2000). “The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men”, p.53, Penguin

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• It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.

  Dalai Lama

  Teaching, Essence, Discipline

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.48, Penguin

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• Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Unhappy, Trying, Depth

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• I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

  Art Buchwald

  Marine, Stripes, Unhappy

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Names, Littles, Way

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

  Will Durant

  Civilization, Stoicism, Pleasure

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• And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Knights, Drawing, Courses

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• Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Pain, Science, Doctors

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• Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.

  David James Duncan

  Religious, Brave New World, Self

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.320, Dial Press

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• Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

  China Mieville

  Book, Thinking, Kraken

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 15, 2010.

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