Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
GARY KELLERIt is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
More Gary Keller Quotes
-
-
It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
GARY KELLER -
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.
GARY KELLER -
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.
GARY KELLER -
You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
GARY KELLER -
All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
GARY KELLER -
You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
GARY KELLER -
You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.
GARY KELLER -
When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.
GARY KELLER -
Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
GARY KELLER -
Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
GARY KELLER -
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
GARY KELLER -
Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
GARY KELLER -
If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
GARY KELLER -
In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no – a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before.
GARY KELLER -
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.
GARY KELLER