Quotes from Gary Keller

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Purpose is the straightest path to power and the ultimate source of personal strength—strength

Multitasking is a scam.

the key to success isn't in all the things we do but in the handful of things we do well.

be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon.

My mom lived to be ninety-five. Every morning I would ask her, "Are you going to have a good day?" She would always answer, "I choose to have a good day. I don't have enough days left in my life to have a bad one." She was right, she didn't. And neither do I!

It's quite possible that the most important contributor to your ultimate success will be your ability to keep moving, to make progress, and to learn as you go. So jump out there and enter the real estate sales race with confidence. And remember, you can't get anywhere if you never start!

Every day, without realizing it, we engage in all manner of activities that diminish our willpower. Willpower is depleted when we make decisions to focus our attention, suppress our feelings and impulses, or modify our behavior in pursuit of goals. It's like taking an ice pick and gouging a hole in our gas line. Before long we have willpower leaking everywhere and none left to do our most important work. So like any other limited but vital resource, willpower must be managed.

While decisions tap our willpower, the food we eat is also a key player in our level of willpower.

If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?" It

success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life.

So the more things you do, the less successful you are at any one of them.

The ability to control oneself to determine one's actions is a pretty powerful idea. Base

Your talent and abilities are limited resources. Your time is finite. If you don't make your life about what you say yes to, then it will almost certainly become what you intended to say no to.

When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover.

Purpose, meaning, significance—these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. The act of living a full life by giving time to what matters is a balancing act.

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

GOING SMALL If everyone has the same number of hours in a day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? How do they do more, achieve more, earn more, have more? If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others? The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach. They go small.

If you can honestly say, "This is where I'm meant to be right now, doing exactly what I'm doing," then all the amazing possibilities for your life become possible.

It's important to realize that on the journey to achieving big, you get bigger. Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you're big too! What seemed an insurmountable mountain from a distance is just a small hill when you arrive—at least in proportion to the person you've become. Your thinking, your skills, your relationships, your sense of what is possible and what it takes all grow on the journey to big. As you experience big, you become big.

It's important for you to accept this instead of fighting it. Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola warns us that "anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos." In other words, get used to it and get over it.

What starts out linear becomes geometric. You

If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn't an action you take but a habit you forge into your life.

Success requires action, and action requires thought. But