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Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Affect Any Because Concern Discipline Emotional Experience Good Humans Imagination Instructions Instruments Issues Law Many Me Novel Novels Other Physics Place Raised Science Starting Trip

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I didn't understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn't a coffee shop. It was really a way of life... we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won't work in New York, that it won't work some other place. That's a discipline we keep trying to improve.

~Alan Patricof

Topics: About Coffee Culture Discipline Improve Keep Life New New York Other Place Really Shop Since Some Starbucks Suffer Thinking Trying Understand Way Work York

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

~Alan Perlis

Topics: Acquiring Against Attention Critical Detail Discipline Education Fun Goes Grain Learning Making Modern Modern Education Organizing Plans Program Self Students Teach Thoughts

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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

~Alan Rickman

Topics: Absolute Between Connection Discipline Freedom Some Think I Think

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I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

~Alan Shepard

Topics: Achievement Did Discipline Family Helpful Later Plus Really Received School Sense Think Very Were Which I Think

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Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

~Alan Tudyk

Topics: Dancing Different Different Kind Discipline End Go Huge Kind Maintain Musical Numbers Once Opportunity Performance Singing Through You

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There is so little SF drawn from modern scientific thinking, in any discipline, that I'm much more cheered by the successes than the failures, most of which are forgivable.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Any Discipline Drawn Failures Little Modern More Most Much Scientific Successes Than Thinking Which Sf

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

~Aleister Crowley

Topics: Canned Chatter Discipline Education Feed First Mind Must Newspaper Read Reading Refrain Refuse Resolutely Something Therefore While Worth

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My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Business Discipline Father Made Mum Serious She Sure

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The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

~Alexa Hirschfeld

Topics: Biggest Biggest Challenge Challenge Competing Discipline Focused Many Stay Stay Focused Things

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