Martin Meadows

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most

In order to succeed, you must have a long-term focus. Most of the challenges in our lives come from a short-term focus

If you’re productive at work only because you’re afraid of your boss, how likely will you be to exhibit productivity when they aren’t around?

Be a hard master to yourself — and be lenient to everybody else.

If you allow yourself to have low standards, how are you supposed to ever achieve excellence?

Whenever you find yourself frustrated that you’re still a long way from the finish line, remember that it’s right now, at this very moment, that you’re collecting the biggest rewards.

The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

You have to look like a fool while you’re looking for answers you don’t have.

If you want to have a beautiful plant, you can’t water it occasionally or move it from one place to another every other week.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.