Gary Keller Quotes Page 2

“Multitasking is a lie.”

“No one succeeds alone. No one.”

“Not everything matters equally, and success isn’t a game won by whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis.”

“One of the most empowering moments of my life came when I realized that life is a question and how we live it is our answer.”

“Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve.

Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.”

“Start saying 'no'. Always remember that when you say 'yes' to something, you’re saying 'no' to everything else. It’s the essence of keeping a commitment.

Start turning down other requests outright or saying, 'No, for now' to distractions so that nothing detracts you from getting to your top priority.

Learning to say 'no' can and will liberate you. It’s how you’ll find the time for your ONE Thing.”

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”

“Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.”

“Success is actually a short race — a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.”

“Take ownership of your environment. Make sure that the people around you and your physical surroundings support your goals. The right people in your life and the right physical environment on your daily path will support your efforts to get to your ONE Thing.

When both are in alignment with your ONE Thing, they will supply the optimism and physical lift you need to make your ONE Thing happen.”

“The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.”

“The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.”

“The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention.

When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.”

“The pursuit of mastery bears gifts.”

“The reason we shouldn’t pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes.”

“They allow purpose to be the guiding force in determining the priority that drives their actions.”

“Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.”

“Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought.

But here’s the catch — the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.

Make this connection, and the importance of how big you think begins to sink in.”

“To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you’ll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.”

“Until my ONE Thing is done — everything else is a distraction.”

“What’s the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

“When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn’t actually move us any closer to success.

Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.”

“When people look back on their lives, it is the things they have not done that generate the greatest regret...

People’s actions may be troublesome initially; it is their inactions that plague them most with long-term feelings of regret.”

“When we know something that needs to be done but isn’t currently getting done, we often say, “I just need more discipline.”

Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.”

“When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of skills, they developed them over time.

When you see someone who has done a lot, they accomplished it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of money, they earned it over time.

The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.”

“When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up. Accept chaos. Recognize that pursuing your ONE Thing moves other things to the back burner.

Loose ends can feel like snares, creating tangles in your path. This kind of chaos is unavoidable. Make peace with it. Learn to deal with it.

The success you have accomplishing your ONE Thing will continually prove you made the right decision.”

“You can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.”

“You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.”

“You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.”

“Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.”