Nathan Mcclellan > Nathan's Quotes

“Opposition can be your friend. Opposition can be the fire that tempers the better sword, as well as the ice that cools a fiery temper. Don't ever run from it; learn from it!”
― Jack R. Rose, The Cedar Post: The Pristine American Dream

“Hating hurts the hater the most. Hating is not a salve for the wounded soul, it is an abrasive that keeps the soul wounded and raw and oversensitive.”
― Jack R. Rose

“Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves.”
― Jack R. Rose, The Cedar Post: The Pristine American Dream

“We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the conquering of fear produces exhilaration.…The contrast between the previous apprehension and the present relief and feeling of security promotes a self-confidence that is the very father and mother of courage.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”
― George Patton

“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

“the poor are no less rational than anyone else—quite the contrary. Precisely because they have so little, we often find them putting much careful thought into their choices:They have to be sophisticated economists just to survive.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Poor Economics: Rethinking Poverty & the Ways to End it

“poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become”
― Amy Cuddy

“preparation is obviously important, but at some point, you must stop preparing content and start preparing mind-set. You have to shift from what you’ll say to how you’ll say it.”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

“Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-- family, health, friends, integrity-- are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

“Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“Multitasking is a lie”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

“Success demands singleness of purpose.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

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

Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.

The ONE Thing shows up time and again in the lives of the successful because it’s a fundamental truth.

More than anything else, expertise tracks with hours invested.

The pursuit of mastery bears gifts.

When people look back on their lives, it is the things they have not done that generate the greatest regret...People’s actions may be troublesome initially; it is their inactions that plague them most with long-term feelings of regret.

Make sure every day you do what matters most. When you know what matters most, everything makes sense. When you don’t know what matters most, anything makes sense.”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

“Exemplary leaders know that if they want to gain commitment and achieve the highest standards, they must be models of the behavior they expect of others.”
― James M. Kouzes, The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

“Recognition is the most powerful currency you have, and it costs you nothing,”
― James M. Kouzes, The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

“You can’t appreciate the solution until you appreciate the problem. So when we talk about “tripping over the truth,” we mean the truth about a problem or harm. That’s what sparks sudden insight.”
― Chip Heath, The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact

“There’s nine times more to gain by elevating positive customers than by eliminating negative ones.”
― Chip Heath, The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact

“What did you guys fail at this week?” “If we had nothing to tell him, he’d be disappointed,” Blakely said.”
― Chip Heath, The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
― Chip Heath, The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact

“At the end of the day, what qualifies people to be called “leaders” is their capacity to influence others to change their behavior in order to achieve important results.”
― Kerry Patterson, Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. —W. Edwards Deming”
― Joseph Grenny, Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

“Influencers use four tactics to help people love what they hate: 1. Allow for choice. 2. Create direct experiences. 3. Tell meaningful stories. 4. Make it a game.”
― Kerry Patterson, Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

“people who climb to the top of just about any field eclipse their peers through something as basic as deliberate practice.”
― Joseph Grenny, Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

“You can talk about results all you want, but they remain nothing more than ideas until you decide exactly how you’re going to measure them.”
― Joseph Grenny, Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World