14 quotes
"If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."
- David Allen
Awareness
"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started."
- David Allen
Awareness
"You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better."
- David Allen
Balance
"You can do anything—but not everything."
- David Allen
Balance
"You can do anything but not everything."
- David Allen
Balance
"You can do anything, but not everything."
- David Allen
Balance
"Fifty years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love."
- David Allen
Self-awareness
"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them."
- David Allen
Creativity
"To function in a knowledge economy, most organizations need people who read."
- David Allen
Responsibility
"The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender."
- David Allen
Goals
"When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding."
- David Allen
Focus
"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started."
- David Allen
Time Management
"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."
- David Allen
Time Management
"If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."
- David Allen
Mindfulness