Shane Parrish
72 quotes.
Quotes by Shane Parrish
- Showing up is the first step. Every. Single. Day.
- Simplicity compounds. Complexity zeros out.
- So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like an idiot over the short term.
- Standards become habits. Habits become outcomes.
- Stop trying to be spectacular. Start being consistent.
- Talent and potential means nothing if you can’t consistently do the boring things when you don’t feel like doing them.
- The best way to be miserable is by comparing yourself to others.
- The best way to be successful is to make others successful.
- The biggest decision you make daily is what to focus on.
- The biggest generator of long-term results is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them.
- The courage to take the first step. The discipline to take the next one.
- The easy choice in the moment almost always makes the future harder. The hard choice almost always makes the future easier.
- The fear of judgment limits what’s possible.
- The greater the success, the more it was due to one thing: focus.
- The less you need the approval of others, the easier it is to do what’s right over what’s easy.
- The longer we wait to deal with reality the bigger the price tag.
- The pain of trying and failing is intense and over rather quickly. The pain of failing to try, on the other hand, is less intense but never really goes away.
- The single most important factor to success is the ability to make things happen. This requires determination, resourcefulness, focus, tenacity, confidence, a willingness to look like an idiot, and an ability to do the work when no one is watching.
- Think like an optimist. Prepare like a pessimist.
- Tomorrow is made easier by integrity not expediency.
- Visible outcomes are the result of years of effort applied in the same direction when no one is watching. It looks sexy, but it’s incredibly boring on a daily basis.
- When you think in decades and not days, you naturally avoid a lot of bad behavior and problems.
- While you don’t control the outcome, you do control the effort.
- Write your goals on a sheet of paper. Circle the three most important. Avoid doing any work on anything that’s not circled.
- You are what you read.
- You can’t teach drive. You can’t teach competitiveness. You can’t teach integrity. You can’t teach resourcefulness. Hire traits you can’t teach.
- You choose who you are. You own your attitude. You own your integrity. You own your response. You own your character. You own your capacity to love. You own your willingness to help others. You own how you talk to others and yourself. You own your happiness.
- You don’t control the outcome. You control the quality of effort you put in. That’s what you should hold yourself accountable for.
- You don’t need more time, you need more focus.
- You get one life. Do it all. Don’t leave anything in reserve.
- You have a choice between what you want now and what you want most. Don’t let feeling good today come at the expense of the decade. Be patient. Keep the end in mind.
- You learn a lot about someone by what they choose to do when no one is watching.