William Glasser Quotes

I follow the roles.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

Too often, people equate discipline with cursing. When you go to Catholic school, the nuns don't curse a word, but you get discipline.

The rules are there for a reason.

Everybody knows if you have the rules, you need to follow the rules and do exactly what you need to do.

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school.

My parents never really lecture me.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

When I was 16, my mother moved me out of Brooklyn and sent me to Florida to stay with my family for a little bit because I was being bad, not going to school and stuff.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.

My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.

Obviously, flagrant things have to be called. There are rules. You have got to play to the rules, no question.