disciplines

Synonyms

self-discipline orderliness self-command branchless field of study penalties

Examples

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war. William Lyon Mackenzie King

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. Andrew Weil

The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them. Kenneth Boulding

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency. Soren Kierkegaard

[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there? Kenneth Boulding

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse. Jeane Kirkpatrick