David Allen Quotes, Thoughts and images

Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.

It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax

You can do anything, but not everything.

A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.

Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

The better you get, the better you better get.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.

You can do anything, but you can't do everything

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

You don't manage priorities, you have them.

If you don't fall off the wagon regularly, you're not playing a big enough game.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.

The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

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

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.