"You need the discipline to alter and perhaps even abandon cherished theories and plans based on new information, rather than trying to twist the new information to fit the traditional mould."
–– Amanda Lang (b. 1970), Canadian journalist and author
Source: Amanda Lang. The Power of Why. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2012; p. 52.
via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 155.
"Discipline, primarily, is our capacity to make a commitment in time."
–– Robert Fripp (b. 1946) English guitarist, record producer and author
Source: Austin Kleon newsletter December 1, 2023. Robert Fripp. The Guitar Circle.
via: Aboveground Art Supplies Sketchbook 2020, 2023, p. 27.
"It's not repetition, it's discipline."
–– Mark E. Smith (1957-2018), English singer
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 92.
"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."
–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."
–– Jim Rohn (1930-2009), American entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker
"It is through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint."
–– Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Canadian-born American abstract painter
via: Anvil Knapsack Sketchbook 2017, p. 30.
"There's a discipline that comes out of repetition and patience. You really have to have patience and then things will make sense. If you just do something, and you don't put a lot of effort into it, then you're going to have to justify it. And, to me, that is the worst thing for the artist, to have to justify something.
When you see a work of art, when you hear any composition, you have to feel something. You don't necessarily have to think the same thing the artist was thinking about when they were making the work, but you definitely have to think something that relates to the feeling that the artist had when they were making the work."
–– Lido Pimienta (b. 1986), Colombian-Canadian singer, producer, and visual artist
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
–– Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American writer and journalist
via: Sketchbook A, 2017, p. 47.
"Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
–– Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), American writer, critic and satirist
"The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret."
–– Nido Qubein (b. 1948), American Lebanese-Jordanian businessperson
via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 14
