Don Yaeger Quotes

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

Less is more.

Less is only more where more is no good.

You have to stay very basic. You have to stay very focused. You have to stay very disciplined.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

I'm known for having a very small to-do list and a big don't-do list.

We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

Discipline enables you to think first and act second.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things.

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist.

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Concentrate, don't embroider.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.