Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,808 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
David Allen
120 quotes
“Resistance to deciding the next action (before we have to) stems from how it exposes the vulnerability of our intelligence.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 28 June 2010
“The nature of creative thinking runs counter to the nature of dealing w/its output. Ability & system to do both is freedom. GTD.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2 July 2010
“Being in control isn't forceful manipulation but rather highly cooperative engagement w/ what's really going on.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4 August 2010
“Making decisions when you can vs. when you have to makes for better decisions.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 8 August 2010
“Not stopping to really catch up (Weekly Review, GTDers!) means trying to catch up constantly & never getting there.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 9 August 2010
“You don't have to like your life to get it off your mind. You DO have to renegotiate your agreements w/yourself about it.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 15 August 2010
“Your ability to deal w/surprise is in inverse relation to the amount of your backlog of "stuff".”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4 September 2010
“Whether you know what you're doing or not, efficiency & style are your only improvement opportunities.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 16 September 2010
“Maximizing is not optimizing. Sustainable engagement wins, in the end.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 8 October 2010
“Top need for top professionals: psychic space. Fewer distractions & more contexts for thinking. Not more time.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 12 October 2010
“Is what you're about to do more likely to expand or limit your ability to get what you really want? Executive intelligence.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 15 October 2010
“How much attention have I given what really deserves my attention today?”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 23 October 2010
“The less you are driven by what goes on in this material world, the more you will pay attention to its details.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 29 October 2010
“You'll be motivated to exercise the #GTD method to the degree you really care about what you're doing.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1 November 2010
“Perfection is graciously dealing with imperfection.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4 November 2010
“Living life in "emergency scan" mode self-perpetuates instead of self-corrects. Deal w/a non-emergency before it is one.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4 November 2010
“If you could stop thinking, letting go of trying control your world w/your mind, where would your attention go?”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3 December 2010
“#GTD 2.0 = what to do with your head, once it's clear.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 8 January 2011
“Organization" for most people is simply an incomplete list, or amorphous piles, of still-unclear commitments.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 14 January 2011
“What do you want to have true? Pick something between total fantasy & 51% believable, get going, & readjust as you learn.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 17 January 2011
“Point of in-box empty: having a complete, current inventory of what matters, so you deal clearly with what's new & what's now.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 18 January 2011
“How, and how often, you relate to your system is an essential part of your system.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 22 January 2011
“Am working as hard as I can to find out what it's OK I'm NOT going to be dong, this weekend!”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 28 January 2011
“When "this isn't right" changes to "this isn't optimal" in your vocabulary, you've moved up the food chain.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 9 February 2011
“Cool how many layers of my mind there are to clear, each time I do it...& how different my world is then.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 12 February 2011
“Only issues in life: u know what u want, but not how to get it; or u don't know what u want. Solution: #GTD”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 13 February 2011
“An overwhelming amount of potential work to do is cool. Otherwise people would never go to a gym.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 24 February 2011
“You've really done your job when what's true? (Challenging question for all of us!)”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4 March 2011
“If your backlog of stuff isn't zero'd regularly, you're hostage to your own incessant angst that you should.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 5 March 2011
“Productivity requires expansiveness & spontaneity as much as structure & control.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 10 March 2011
“If you're already in a mess, you're not free to make one.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 24 March 2011
“To be free to be spontaneously & creatively shallow requires depth of character & a disciplined focus.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 29 April 2011
“It takes a healthy sense of self to feel OK with nothing happening in your head.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3 June 2011
“Things hold your attention hostage until you give them the appropriate attention.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 27 June 2011
“Hold still enough to grapple w/the simple questions, & the complexities become clear.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 6 July 2011
“How can you justify keeping a calendar & still keep most of your other commitments w/yourself in your head?”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 10 July 2011
“It's hard to say no when you're not aware of everything you've said yes to.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 19 July 2011
“If u magically had 0 emails, in 10 days you'd be back to what you had. Issue is not volume, but tolerance of backlog.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20 July 2011
“The latest & loudest thing in your psyche is seldom the most important thing that should take up residence there.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3 August 2011
“Being organized simply means that where something is matches what it means to you. No more, no less.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 22 August 2011
“Your mind doesn't have one. If it did, it would only remind you of something when you could do something about it.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1 September 2011
“Pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, so you can pay attention to what really has your attention.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 15 September 2011
“Outcome/next-action thinking, before you must, prepares you for when you must. And that time will come.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 29 September 2011
“The balance you have between drive & patience may be your master key to success.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 26 October 2011
“Engaging in complexity is a key to simplicity. Fear of it will haunt your inner recesses.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 12 November 2011
“Your tools are only as good as they serve your intention. What do you want to have true? What Do you need to have viewable re: that?”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 15 November 2011
“When you know you'll get email to zero, you're free to deal with the ones you choose, when you choose. Most productive.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 23 November 2011
“Even the smallest knoll to climb, to see a little more than the machine guns firing at me, is salvation.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 30 November 2011
“Changing what you want to get done takes a second. Recalibrating & getting the new thing to happen is a martial art.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 7 December 2011
“When you know how, any time, to get to the place where it's all sort of funny, you've mastered GTD.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 8 December 2011