"Discern the vital few from the trivial Many." — Greg McKeown
"Discern the vital few from the trivial Many."
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17 Quotes by Greg McKeown
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The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.
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Essentialism is not about how to get more things done, it's about how to the get the right things done.…
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Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.
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We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things,…
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There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are…
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We overvalue nonessentials like a nicer car or house, or even intangibles like the number of our followers on Twitter…
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The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately…
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Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone,…
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If I didn’t already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?
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The word priority was singular for 500 years—what does priorities mean—'many many first things.'
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I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble—everything seems important—so of course nothing is.
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If it isn't a clear yes, then it's a clear no.
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More Discern Quotes
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
— Robert Browning
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
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The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
— Thomas Hobbes
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God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
— Oswald Chambers
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles…
— Sun Tzu
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
— John Milton
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We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.
— George Crabbe
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