self-disciplined

• “What happens for the rest of the film should have the feel of slowly encroaching fate, or a collision course between the self-disciplined but ferocious Purvis and the flamboyant but no less ferocious Dillinger.”

  DVD Review: Public Enemies « Screaming Blue Reviews

• “With technology what it is today this is becoming more and more a possibility for the self-starter and self-disciplined.”

  The Huffington Post: Grant Cardone: Work From Home Successfully

• “People use the "family budget" analogy because we're supposed to respect the image of a thrifty, self-disciplined homestead.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: The United States Isn't a Company and It Isn't a Family -- It's a Country.

• “Perhaps because the man himself, at 80, is filled with life, with a self-disciplined hedonism and with a passionate belief in the importance of his craft.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Design Life Force

• “And why, if he truly hates women, does he in the end seek help from a womansomeone as straightforward and self-disciplined as he is unsure and seemingly out of controlto repair the damage to his mind?”

  The Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters: Book summary

• “Unsurprisingly, they found that highly self-disciplined adolescents out-performed their more impulsive peers, again and again.”

  The Guardian: It's our narrow view of education that holds pupils back | Yvonne Roberts

• “Volunteers who were flashed the name of a self-disciplined friend did better on the test than those who were flashed the name of a non-self-disciplined friend.”

  Social contagions

• “Even as a student, Mr. Cinar remembers Gen. Ozel being careful and unusually self-disciplined —possibly overcompensating for the fact that his father taught at the military academy and he didn't want to appear to be favored in any way.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Turkey Outlines New Role for Military

• “Children become responsible, self-disciplined, and self-reliant through being nurtured and caring for others.”

  The Washington Post: Parents as tigers and wimps: Cycles in child rearing and schooling

• “Thus, raising children to respect authority, be self-disciplined, and know right from wrong–the Strict Parent model– was expected in one-room schoolhouses and, later, age-graded elementary schools.”

  The Washington Post: Parents as tigers and wimps: Cycles in child rearing and schooling

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