12 Powerful Quotes From The Book Essentialism by Greg McKeown

Essentialism is a book that will help you prioritize.

"Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will."

"You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything."

"What if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measurement of importance?

"What if instead we celebrated how much time we had spent listening, pondering, meditating, and enjoying time with the most important people in our lives?"

"The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular.

"It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years."

"Essentialists see trade-offs as an inherent part of life, not as an inherently negative part of life.

"Instead of asking, “What do I have to give up?” they ask, “What do I want to go big on?"

"There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were."

"Sometimes what you don’t do is just as important as what you do."

"If it isn’t a clear yes, then it’s a clear no."

“Sometimes what you don’t do is just as important as what you do.”