Book
The ONE Thing
Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
- Where I’d had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too. (Location 85)
- “Going small” is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It’s recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It’s a tighter way to connect what you do with what you want. It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus. (Location 91)
- You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. (Location 99)
- The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time. (Location 140)
- No one succeeds alone. No one. (Location 185)
- 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. (Location 196)
- Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list—a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results. (Location 323)
- majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do. Extraordinary (Location 353)
- It’s not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it’s that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have. So we double and triple up in the hope of getting everything done. (Location 441)
- Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over. (Location 539)
- The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That’s it. That’s all the discipline you need. As this habit becomes part of your life, you’ll start looking like a disciplined person, but you won’t be one. (Location 552)
- “Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that 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.” (Location 848)
- success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life. (Location 1023)
- quality of any answer is directly determined by the quality of the question. (Location 1051)