Quotes About Commitment

buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others—and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.

Leaving some things undone is a necessary tradeoff for extraordinary results.

The reason we shouldn't pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes.

when you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world." — Og Mandino

Productivity isn't about being a workhorse, keeping busy or burning the midnight oil... . It's more about priorities, planning, and fiercely protecting your time." —Margarita Tartakovsky

You do the right thing and then you do the next right thing. Over time it adds up, and the geometric potential of success is unleashed.

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

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.

working at something until it regularly works for you.

Saying yes to everyone is the same as saying yes to nothing. Each additional obligation chips away at your effectiveness at everything you try.

The truth I have come to know very clearly is that seeking mastery is a process and a path, not an event.

Mastery is a commitment to becoming your best, so to achieve extraordinary results you must embrace the extraordinary effort it represents.

When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t. Mitch: That's great, but what's the "one thing"? Curly: That's what you've got to figure out.

In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.

direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues

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.

When you say yes to something, it's imperative that you understand what you're saying no to.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time—all of them.

As a result, buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others—and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.

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

Because I want my life to matter, I approach each area by doing what matters most in it. I view these as the cornerstones of my life and have found that when I'm doing what's most important in each area, my life feels like it's running on all cylinders.