David Allen Quotes About Focus

Quotes about: Focus

• If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2009

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

  David Allen

  Focus, Can Do

• A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience.

  David Allen

  Positive, Choices, Focus

• Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

  David Allen

  Giving, Focus, Doe

• It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.

  David Allen

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Reality

  David Allen (2008). “Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life”, p.192, Penguin

• Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance.

  David Allen

  Stress, Exercise, Expression

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

  David Allen

  Issues, Focus, Action

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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

  David Allen

  Moving, People, Focus

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

• The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.

  David Allen

  Clever, Stupid, Focus

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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