Category: Free book summaries

The three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous” ~ Dalai Lama XIV

In life, as in poker, the hand you’re dealt is often out of your control—but how you play it makes all the difference” ~ Maria Konnikova

The key to achieving success is to focus on the most important things, and to eliminate distractions” ~ Peter Bregman

Leaders who develop the right focus, create the right environment, and build the right team—consistently—are leaders whose organizations win.” ~ Michael Canic

What’s your dream? It’s a simple question, but one which very few of us ever really think about” ~ Simon Squibb

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration” ~ James Allen

When you align with your purpose, everything in life becomes more meaningful” ~ Ben Renshaw

When you change the way you think, you change everything” ~ Nancy Kline

The biggest obstacle to improved performance isn’t not knowing what to do; it’s not doing what you already know” ~ Alan Fine

The key to achieving success is to focus on the most important things, and to eliminate distractions” ~ Peter Buffett

Fast is not always forward; sometimes, you must pause to gain momentum” ~ Damian D. Pitts

Our feelings do not come from external events, but from our own thinking about the events” ~ Joseph Nguyen

Ignoring your pain doesn’t make it go away; it amplifies it” ~ Whitney Goodman

Persistence is the vehicle that drives you from failure to success” ~ Eric Thomas

When you slow down, the world slows down with you” ~ Haemin Sunim

The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently” ~ David Graeber

“Slow productivity is my attempt at creating a sophisticated ethic of doing work that you’re actually proud of… that’s important… that’s meaningful” ~ Cal Newport

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today” ~ Dale Carnegie

You must retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties. And at the same time, you must confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be” ~ Jim Collins

Neuroscientists have discovered that daydreaming and mind-wandering are vital to creativity and problem-solving.” ~ Daniel J. Levitin

Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors ~ Brianna Wiest

True success is living by your values” ~ Russ Harris

Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go” ~ Spencer Johnson

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else’s” ~ Grant Cardone

Acknowledging our mistakes doesn’t make us weak; it makes us stronger” ~ Adam Grant

You have the power to reinvent your life—one step, one thought, and one change at a time” ~ Jeffrey E. Young and Janet S. Klosko

You can either follow the rules and maintain the status quo, or you can rewrite them and change the game entirely” ~ Sam Conniff Allende

Big things get done when you combine big dreams with small, achievable steps ~ Bent Flyvbjerg

Comfort can lull us into complacency; it’s in discomfort that we find growth” ~ Jedidiah Jenkins