David Allen

Quotes

• “Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What...”
• “Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything...”
• “You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have ...”
• “Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage ...”
• “Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clea...”
• “Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects ...”
• “It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the gara...”
• “Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limi...”
• “The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options a...”
• “Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for ex...”
• “When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things...”
• “At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have...”
• “There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”
• “When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.”
• “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
• “Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.”
• “The better you get, the better you better get.”