Greg McKeown Quotes

A strategic position is not sustainable unless there are trade-offs with other positions.

if there’s one thing you are passionate about — and that you can be best at — you should do just that one thing.

Boundaries are a little like the walls of a sandcastle. The second we let one fall over, the rest of them come crashing down.

Remember: When you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. When you focus on what you have, you get what you lack. Use this

By applying tougher criteria we can tap into our brain’s sophisticated search engine.8 If we search for “a good opportunity,” then we will find scores of pages for us to think about and work through. Instead, we can conduct an advanced search and ask three questions: “What do I feel deeply inspired by?” and “What am I particularly talented at?” and “What meets a significant need in the world?” Naturally there won’t be as many pages to view, but this is the point of the exercise. We aren

Discern more; do less.

since 1981 not a single film has won Best Picture without at least being nominated for Film Editing.

while there are clearly people who can survive on fewer hours of sleep, I’ve found that most of them are just so used to being tired they have forgotten what it really feels like to be fully rested.

NO IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE. — Anne Lamott

motivation and cooperation deteriorate when there is a lack of purpose.

We can either make our choices deliberately or allow other people's agendas to control our lives.

Weniger aber besser. The English translation is: Less but better.

Mary Oliver wrote: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?”12

To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make.

One simple answer is we are unclear about what is essential. When this happens we become defenceless. On the other hand, when we have strong internal clarity it is almost as if we have a force field protecting us from the non-essentials coming at us from all directions.