If you use the right method and concentrate your efforts on eliminating clutter thoroughly and completely within a short span of time, you’ll see instant results that will empower you to keep your space in order ever after.
-- Marie Kondo (chapter 3 paragraph 6)

Importance: Marie Kondo contends that by tidying up a room all at once, the impact will inspire the individual to always keep the room in order.

Putting things away creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved.
-- Marie Kondo (chapter 6 paragraph 3)

Importance: The author dispels the storage myth: storing clutter away still leaves you with clutter.

Think in concrete terms so that you can vividly picture what it would be like to live in a clutter-free space.
-- Marie Kondo (chapter 11 paragraph 1)

Importance: Marie Kondo stresses that tidying up is part of the lifestyle that each person wants to have. Before beginning the first step of tidying up which is discarding, she recommends that time be set aside to think about...