Quotes About Direction

If today your company doesn't know what its ONE Thing is, then the company's ONE Thing is to find out.

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.

Purpose without priority is powerless.

A big, specific question leads to a big, specific answer, which is absolutely necessary for achieving a big goal.

If a list isn't built around success, then that's not where it takes you.

If your to-do list contains everything, then it's probably taking you everywhere but where you really want to go.

life as a series of connected choices, where our purpose sets our priority and our priority determines the productivity our actions produce.

Live with purpose and you know where you want to go. Live by priority and you'll know what to do to get there.

Whenever you feel lost or lacking direction, you can pull it out to remind yourself to discover what matters most.

Quiénes somos y adónde queremos ir determinan lo que hacemos y lo que conseguimos.

As Henry David Thoreau said, "It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

when our lives are defined by our choices, the all-important question becomes, How do we make good ones?

The best decision gets traded for any decision, and what should be progress simply becomes a trap.

At the 1997 MacWorld Developers Conference, he explained, "When you think about focusing, you think, 'Well, focusing is saying yes.' No! Focusing is about saying no." Jobs

Obviously, you can drive yourself nuts analyzing every little aspect of everything you might do. I don't do that, and you shouldn't either. Start with the big stuff and see where it takes you.

Every minute of every day, the question is never will we be doing something, but rather what that something is we'll be doing.

The Focusing Question can direct you to your ONE Thing in the different areas of your life. Simply reframe the Focusing Question by inserting your area of focus. You can also include a time frame—such as "right now" or "this year"—to give your answer the appropriate level of immediacy, or "in five years" or "someday" to find a big-picture answer that points you at outcomes to aim for.

Sometimes what we do doesn't matter, but sometimes it does. And when it does, what we do defines our life more than anything else. In

There is this pervasive idea that the successful person is the "disciplined person" who leads a "disciplined life." It's a lie. The truth is we don't need any more discipline than we already have. We just need to direct and manage it a little better.

The connection path is different from the desperation path or the contradiction path.

What we can control is where we're going. If we've been less than healthy, we can commit ourselves, as a spiritual exercise, to deal with the spiritual issues behind the physical problem.

We are told to seek first the kingdom of God, not seek first marriage.

Don't look where you don't want to go.

You have the responsibility to shape your life. You are the person who pushes yourself forward or holds yourself back. The power to succeed or fail is yours alone.