David Allen Quotes

You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler

Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action. —Bill Raeder

Thinking in a concentrated manner to define desired outcomes is something few people feel they have to do. But in truth, outcome thinking is one of the most effective means available for making wishes...

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henri Bergson

1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. Responding inappropriately to your e-mail, your thoughts about what you need to do, your children, or your boss wil...

Don’t just do something. Stand there. —Rochelle Myer

Вы не можете выиграть игру, правил которой не знаете

Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. —Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Getting things done requires two basic components: defining (1) what done means (outcome) and (2) what doing looks like (action).

I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin.

Most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. —J. Bronowski

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I

It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

Almost every project could be done better, and an infinite quantity of information is now available that could make that happen.

The big problem is that your mind keepsreminding you of things when you can't doanything about them. It has no sense of past or future. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do...