Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I can dance to just about anything.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.