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# Self discipline

Self-discipline is the ability to manage ourselves and our emotions to determine a best course of action on any situation that whether it is according to or against our will.

## Quotes

* I chanced recently to be glancing over … a book on Japanese Buddhism, and I read among other things that several centuries ago there was a sect of Japanese Buddhism known as the Way of Hardships, and that shortly after there arose another sect known as the Easy Way which at once gained great popularity and tended to supplant the Way of Hardships. But the Japanese Way of Hardships is itself an easy way if one compares it with the original way of Buddha. One can follow indeed very clearly the process by which Buddhist doctrine descended gradually from the austere and almost inaccessible height on which it had been placed by its founder to the level of the prayer mill.
** Irving Babbitt, "English and the Discipline of Ideas" (1920), pp. 61-62
* Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
** Sydney J. Harris, Pieces of Eight (1982).
* The middle gear of any man is self-discipline.
** John le Carré, The Mission Song (2006).

## See also

* Asceticism
* Awareness
* Consciousness
* Control
* Discipline
* Ego
* Healing
* Mental health
* Self-realization
* Self-control
# Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (24 August 1707 – 17 June 1791) was an English religious leader who played a prominent part in the religious revival of the eighteenth century and the Methodist movement in England and Wales, and has left a Christian denomination (Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion) in England and Sierra Leone.

## Quotes

* My work is done; I have nothing to do but to go to my Father.
** 17 June 1791: Last words, quoted in Famous Sayings and their Authors, p. 44
* None know how to prize the Saviour, but such as are zealous in pious works for others.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 399.

## External links

* Edward Latham: Famous Sayings And Their Authors, Second Edition, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain, 1906
* Kirby, Gilbert W. The Elect Lady.
* Cook, Faith, Selina, Countess of Huntingdon – article in Evangelical Times, October 2001.
# Severus Sebokht

Severus Sebokht (575 - 667) (Classical Syriac: ܣܘܪܘܣ ܣܝܒܘܟܬ), also Seboukt of Nisibis, was a Syriac scholar and bishop who was born in Nisibis, Syria.

## Quotes

* I shall now speak of the knowledge of the Hindus ... of their subtle discoveries even more ingenious than those of the Greeks and Babylonians - of their rational system of matbematics or of their method of calculation which no word can praise strongly enough - 1 mean the system using the nine symbols. If these things were known by the people who think that they alone have mastered the sciences because they speak Greek, they would perhaps be convinced that every folk, not only Greeks, but men of a different tongues, know something as well as they.
** Basham,AL The Wonder That Was India Grove Press Inc. New York 1954 Volume I p. vi as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
# Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki

Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki (born 1985) is a climate activist from Cameroon and in 2021 was awarded as a BBC 100 Women, for "women who create lasting change". She is a climate and gender activist from the North-West region of Cameroon, and she is the founder of Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch.

## Quotes

* "We can't fight the climate emergency if we cannot protect and regenerate our land."
* "My community of 300,000 people depends on nature for livelihood. We find daily solutions in our forest and in our farmlands. But our natural resources face a lot of challenges deforestation, over-exploitation, encroachment and poor soil conservation. And these are made worse by gender inequality, cultural barriers and little or no knowledge about the goodness of nature."
* "Nature remains our greatest ally to reach our climate mitigation targets. Planting trees is essential, but we need to raise a forest generation that will thrive and live in harmony with nature."
** A "forest generation" living in harmony with nature, October 2020. TED, Retrieved: 29, November 2023.
* "Honey equals income, equals jobs, equals gender equality, equals conservation.”
** Environmental Hero: Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki, Lindsey Jean Schueman. January 20, 2022, OneEarth. Retrieved: 29, November 2023.

## References

* ↑ "Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki is Women Empowerment and Environment Officer of Cameroon Gender and Environment, a non profit devoted to caring for nature while promoting the rights of women". World Pulse. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
# Seven Sages of Greece

The Seven Sages of Greece or Seven Wise Men (Greek: οἱ ἑπτὰ σοφοί hoi hepta sophoi) was the title given by classical Greek tradition to seven philosophers, statesmen, and law-givers of the 6th century BC who were renowned for their wisdom.

## Quotes

* Know thyself.
** Inscription at the Delphic Oracle. From Plutarch, Morals
* Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
** Periander. From Plutarch, The Banquet of th Seven Wise Men, sec. 14
* Every one of you hath his paritcular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only.
** Pittacus. From Plutarch, The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, sec. 14
* Nothing too much.
** From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. 1, sec. 63
* Do not speak ill of the dead.
** From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 1, 70
* Know the right moment.
** From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 1, 79
* Rule will show the man.
** Bias. From Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 5, ch. 1

## Notes

* ↑ Spare your breath to cool your porridge. - François Rabelais, Works, bk. V[1552], ch. 28
* ↑ The Latin form: De mortuis nil nisi bonum [Of the dead, nothing but good].
* ↑ Occasionem cognosce.
# Severino Poletto

Severino Poletto (18 March 1933 – 17 December 2022) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Turin.

## Quotes

* I like highlighting a specific charism of this theologian pope: his ability to communicate important issues of the faith in a language accessible to all the Christian people. This specific characteristic makes the most of the spiritual and cultural training of this Pontiff and is also a particular gift for all believers, who look to the Pope so they may feel steadfast and directed in their faith, and that happens when the Christian people hear words accessible to all.
** The themes of faith communicated in a language accessible to all (2007) 30 Days
# Seven Sleepers

In Christian and Islamic tradition, the Seven Sleepers (Arabic: اصحاب الکهف‎, romanized: aṣḥāb al kahf, lit. 'People of the Cave') is the story of a group of youths who hid inside a cave outside the city of Ephesus around 250 CE to escape a religious persecution and emerged some 300 years later.

## Quotes

* But the youths lay calmly sleeping; And the angel, their protector, Spake before the throne of glory: “I have watched beside the sleepers, Made them turn in slumber ever, That the damps of yonder cavern Should not cramp their youthful limbs; And the rocks around I ’ve opened, That the sun at rising, setting, May give freshness to their cheeks. So they lie in rest and quiet, In the bliss of happy dreams.” So they lay; and still, beside them, Lay the dog in peaceful slumber, Never whimpering in his sleep.
** Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus as quoted in Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, ed. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1876–79.
# Robert Fox

Robert Fox is a veteran British journalist and broadcaster who is defense correspondent for the Evening Standard. He is senior associate fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies in King's College, London.

## Sourced

* As a Macedonian [Philip] was looked down upon by the more refined Athenians, but they shared the same Hellenistic culture. How deep this went is evident in aesthetically the least spectacular, but politically the most explosive, of the finds in Vergina. In the Great Tumulus above Philip's tombs, which was raised by the invading Galatians in 274 BC, the archaeologists found fragments of no fewer than seventy-five funeral monuments, or stelai. The names on these were entirely Greek, save two which appeared to be Hellenised versions of Thracian and Phoenician names. The implication is that Philip's Macedonia was thoroughly Hellenised, an outpost of classical Greek culture.
** The Inner Sea: The Mediterranean and its People, (Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1991) pp. 229-230

## External links

* Guardian profile page for Robert Fox
# Robert Frank

Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was an American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society.

## Quotes

* I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love. It is important to see what is invisible to others — perhaps the look of hope or the look of sadness. Also, it is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph. My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.
** Robert Frank, "Statement, 1958"; republished in: Vicki Goldberg. Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present, 1981, p. 401
* Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Most of my photographs are of people; they are seen simply, as through the eyes of the man in the street. There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough—there has to be vision and the two together can make a good photograph. It is difficult to describe this thin line where matter ends and mind begins.
** Robert Frank, in: Nathan Lyons, Photographers on photography: a critical anthology, (1966), p. 66
* Life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference and it is important to see what is invisible to others.
** Robert Frank, cited in: Robet Hirsch, Photographic Possibilities, 2009, p. ix
* People are my favourite subject because there are no two alike, so my work never becomes routine.
** Robert Frank interview in: Tom Ang (2010), The Complete Photographer, p. 43
# Robert Francis Prevost

Robert Francis Prevost (September 14, 1955 –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* Sometimes the bishop risks focusing only on the local dimension. But a bishop should have a much broader vision of the Church and reality, and experience the universality of the Church. He also needs the ability to listen to his neighbour and seek advice, as well as psychological and spiritual maturity. A fundamental element of the portrait of a bishop is being a pastor, capable of being close to the members of the community.
** Archbishop Prevost: ‘The bishop is a pastor, not a manager’ (4 May 2023) Vatican News
# Robert Francis Taft

Robert Francis Taft (January 9, 1932 – November 2, 2018) was an American Jesuit priest, first in the Russian Greek Catholic Church and later an archimandrite of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* The only possible aim for ecumenism is communion. The old notion that the church begins with God, then the pope, and on down in pyramidal fashion, is gone. What we're dealing with now is sister churches. That's what we had before the East/West schism.
** Interview with Jesuit Fr. Robert Taft of the Pontifical Oriental Institute (4 February 2004) National Catholic Reporter
* Anything that helps spread the news and the flood of ever-new documentation on inter-church relations can only be viewed positively. And it is a mistake to think that this is not true in countries of the less-developed so-called "third world," where those interested in the rest of the world are often more computer-literate than those of us in the West. Some of my Orthodox friends in far away countries are computer whizzes compared to me!
** Building Bridges Between Orthodox and Catholic Christians (1 May 2013) Catholic World Report
# Robert Fogel

Robert William Fogel (July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013) was an American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

## Quotes

* We have attacked the traditional interpretation of the economics of slavery not in order to resurrect a defunct system, but in order to correct the perversion of the history of blacks — in order to strike down the view that black Americans were without culture, without achievement, and without development for their first two hundred and fifty years on American soil.
** Robert William Fogel, ‎Stanley L. Engerman (1974). Time on the cross: the economics of American Negro slavery. p. 258
* Economic history has contributed significantly to the formulation of economic theory. Among the economists who have found history an important source for their ideas are Smith, Malthus, Marx, Marshall, Keynes, Hicks, Arrow, Friedman, Solow, and Becker. Failure to take account of history, as Simon Kuznets (1941) stressed, has often led to a misunderstanding of current economic problems by investigators who have not realized that their generalizations rested upon transient circumstances. Nowhere is the need to recognize the role of long-run dynamics more relevant than in such pressing current issues as medical care, pension policies, and development policies.
** Robert Fogel (1993) "Economic Growth, Population Theory, And Physiology: The Bearing Of Long-Term Processes On The Making Of Economic Policy." Nobel lecture.
* The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.
** Robert Fogel, in: "Transcript from an interview with Professor Robert W. Fogel, 2004" at nobelprize.org.
* People want more and more leisure time which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.
** Robert Fogel in: "Early Retirees Turn to Volunteer Work," at npr.org. October 23, 2005.
* As we get rich, the basics of life--food, clothing and shelter--become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually and I mean the word spiritual not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.
** Robert Fogel in: "Early Retirees Turn to Volunteer Work," at npr.org. October 23, 2005.

## Quotes about Robert Fogel

* Robert Fogel and Douglass North have been awarded this year's Prize in Economics for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change.
** Nobel Committee Award Ceremony Speech 1993 by Professor Lennart Jörberg of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
# Robert Maxwell

Ian Robert Maxwell MC (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, politician, fraudster, and the father of the convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.
After escaping the Nazi occupation of his native country, Maxwell joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II and was decorated after active service in the British Army. In subsequent years he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major academic publisher. After six years as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) between 1964 and 1970, Maxwell again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers and Macmillan Publishers, among other publishing companies.
In November 1991, his body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean, having apparently fallen overboard from his yacht. Maxwell embezzled hundreds of millions of pounds from his own companies' pension funds, the details only became known after his death.

## Quotes

* I can't get on with men [...] or perhaps it might be truer to say that they can't get on with me. They were not very friendly in the Commons, I suppose it was because I was a bit brash; in fact I know I was. I was impatient with the slow archaic procedure.
* I tried having male assistants at first [...] But it didn't work. They tend to be too independent; men like to have individuality. Women can become an extension of the boss. They don't mind working overtime, they are more loyal and they can take criticism better. [...] Women are also more efficient than men. I want perfection, and I do my best to get it—so I have trained them myself.
* Britain will never have a woman Prime Minister because women are frightened to take on supreme power.
** Interviewed by Stella King for her series "Men Talking About Women", The Times (23 October 1968), p. 8
# Robert McCammon

Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist.

## Quotes
### Boy's Life (1991)

* See this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God's sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they'd allowed to wither in themselves.
** Introduction.
* The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks and get crippled. People lose their way, for one reason or another. It's not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you "sir." It just happens.
** Introduction.
* "You never know how things are gonna turn out, though, and that's the truth. You aim for one place, sure as an arrow, but before you hit the mark, the wind gets you. I don't believe I ever met one person who became what they wanted to be when they were your age."
** Cory's dad to Cory; Book One, Ch. 1.
* It seemed to me at an early age that all human communication – whether it’s TV, movies, or books – begins with somebody wanting to tell a story. That need to tell, to plug into a universal socket, is probably one of our grandest desires. And the need to hear stories, to live lives other than our own for even the briefest moment, is the key to the magic that was born in our bones.
** Book One, Ch. 3.

## External links

* Robert McCammon's official site
# Robert Mark Pipta

Robert Mark Pipta (April 7, 1967 –) is an American prelate of the Ruthenian Catholic Church who serves as the eparch of the Eparchy of Parma.

## Quotes

* When any misunderstanding is possible, spontaneous prayer that leaves no doubt about the truth of the matter according to the Church's teachings on faith and morals and no doubt about the blessing’s goal of growth in salvific holiness is the only option. What we pray is what we believe!
** An Abundance of Blessings | A Teaching from Bishop Robert Pipta (January 2024) The Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma
# Robert Marshak

Robert Eugene Marshak (October 11, 1916 – December 23, 1992) was an American physicist, known for the 1957 proposal, with George Sudarshan, of the V-A theory of weak interactions.

## Quotes

* The year 1950 saw tremendous advances in the laboratory study of mesons. It was the first year in which the accelerator physicists outdistanced the cosmic ray physicists in so far as their contributions to our understanding of the properties of mesons, the character of their production, and the nature of their interactions with nucleons are concerned. ... The cyclotron and synchrotron at Berkeley still led the procession, but Rochester and Columbia with their cyclotrons, Cornell and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with their synchrotrons, and Illinois with its betatron were rapidly catching up.
** (December 1952)"Meson physics". Annual Review of Nuclear Science 1 (1): 1–42. DOI:10.1146/annurev.ns.01.120152.000245.
* Dirac's argument for electric charge quantization (ECQ) is not to be taken lightly because it is the first "topological conservation law" uncovered in Abelian gauge theory. Since Dirac's two papers on the magnetic monopole were published, other potential physical examples of "topological conservation laws" have been identified in non-Abelian gauge theories (e.g. instantons, 't Hooft-Polyakov magnetic monopoles, etc.) which have revealed the rich topological structure of QCD ... Moreover, with regard to Dirac's ECQ argument, it is likely that — within the framework of the standard model — ECQ is well explained by the chiral gauge anomaly-free constraints, which, to some extent, contain topological information ...
** Conceptual foundations of modern particle physics. World Scientific. 1993. p. 263.
# Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney and Princeton.

## Quotes

* To a rough approximation, and setting aside vertebrate chauvinism, it can be said that essentially all organisms are insects.
** How many species are there on earth? (1988), Science 241: 1441--9
* Not only in research, but also in the everyday world of politics and economics, we would all be better off if more people realised that simple nonlinear systems do not necessarily possess simple dynamical properties.
** Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics (1976), Nature 261: 459--467