Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Plato
Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a...
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Peter Kreeft
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
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Neil Gaiman
The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
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Matthew Kelly
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.
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Scott Hahn
More Quotes By Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.
The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
[Discipline i]t’s the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you’ve started.
