David Allen Quotes About Productivity

Quotes about: Productivity

• 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

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

• 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

• Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

  David Allen

  Procrastination, Ideas, Mind

• 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.

  David Allen

  Cutting, Energy, Cobwebs

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

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Needs, Avoiding

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

  David Allen

  Steps, Action, Projects

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.58, Penguin

• Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Vacation, Agreement

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

  David Allen

  Mind, Fool, Productivity

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.36, Penguin

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

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Tunnels

• You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

  David Allen

  Taken, Done, Outcomes

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.58, Penguin

• Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

  David Allen

  Stress, Thinking, Two

• A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept
  current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis,
  is a master key to stress-free productivity.

  David Allen

  Stress, Keys, Lists

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.102, Penguin

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