Greg Mckeown Quotes

#1. The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

Gertrude Atherton

#2. It would have been easy to think of the jobs in terms of that ratio between time and reward. But I knew what really counted was the relationship between time and results.

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#3. Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

Adam Dunn

#4. I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

Sean Kingston

#5. The audience may forget a plot, the witty dialog or the special effects but they'll always remember how a film made them feel.

T. Rafael Cimino

#6. The ancient Greeks had two words for time. The first was chronos. The second was kairos. The

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#7. The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

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#8. Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will.

Glenda Green

#9. The life of an Essentialist is a life lived without regret. If you have correctly identified what really matters, if you invest your time and energy in it, then it is difficult to regret the choices you make. You become proud of the life you have chosen to live.

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#10. 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. Ironically,

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#11. We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice - a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.

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#12. There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

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#13. Remember that if you don't prioritize your life someone else will.

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#14. We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Voltaire

#15. Done right, a strategic intent is really one decision that makes 1,000 decisions.

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#16. Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.

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#17. Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?

Dan Barker

#18. Research has shown that of all forms of human motivation the most effective one is progress. Why? Because a small, concrete win creates momentum and affirms our faith in our further success.

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#19. I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble - everything seems important - so of course nothing is.

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#20. Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

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#21. I think we've been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

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#22. Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#23. I realized that journalism was not just about regurgitating the facts but about figuring out the point. It wasn't enough to know the who, what, when, and where; you had to understand what it meant. And why it mattered.

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#24. Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft in their book Make Space,

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#25. We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Leo Tolstoy

#26. I had a connoisseur's ... appreciation of fear.

Peter Straub

#27. We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.

Woody Allen

#28. I'd rather be honest and lose than be dishonest and win

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#29. Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

Basil Bunting

#30. One of the best ways to seed an opportunity is to allow someone to discover the opportunity for him- or herself.

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#31. I'd rather let the world down than to allow the world to let me down.

Cao Cao

#32. The word priority was singular for 500 years - what does priorities mean - 'many many first things.'

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#33. At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

Donna Rice

#34. Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

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#35. If I didn't already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?

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#36. I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

Josh Hutcherson

#37. As John Maxwell has written, "You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything."9

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#38. Discern the vital few from the trivial Many.

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#39. by abolishing any chance of being bored we have also lost the time we used to have to think and process.

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