David Allen: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Collect, process, organize & review what has your attention, so you can stop half-trying to be doing all that, constantly.”

David Allen

15 March 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/180374838857318400
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“How can you justify keeping a calendar & still keep most of your other commitments w/yourself in your head?”

David Allen

10 July 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/89936622044450816
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“A commitment kept only in your head will be given too much or too little attention.”

David Allen

23 June 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/16821970790
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“Making decisions when you can vs. when you have to makes for better decisions.”

David Allen

8 August 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/20590785465
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Decision

“It's hard to say no when you're not aware of everything you've said yes to.”

David Allen

19 July 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/93386722926276609
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“GTD supplies the reset button for all parts of life & work.”

David Allen

19 May 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/14255178696
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Life , Parting

“Being organized simply means that where something is matches what it means to you. No more, no less.”

David Allen

22 August 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/105536813661298688
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“Even the smallest knoll to climb, to see a little more than the machine guns firing at me, is salvation.”

David Allen

30 November 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/142134392679186432
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“GTD 2.0 = what to do with your head, once it's clear.”

David Allen

8 January 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/23815709830156288
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“Living life in "emergency scan" mode self-perpetuates instead of self-corrects. Deal w/a non-emergency before it is one.”

David Allen

4 November 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/318242203639809
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Life

“Maximizing is not optimizing. Sustainable engagement wins, in the end.”

David Allen

8 October 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/26778825813
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Optimism

“If you admit your wildest dream & uncover why you want it, you have a big key to make tomorrow a better day.”

David Allen

28 May 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/14933593727
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Dreams

“Changing what you want to get done takes a second. Recalibrating & getting the new thing to happen is a martial art.”

David Allen

7 December 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/144476364966346752
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Art , Change

“What people call an "Interruption" is simply new input inappropriately managed.”

David Allen

19 June 2009 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/2240630593
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People

“Get things under control first, then get focused. If your ship is sinking, you don't care where it's pointed.”

David Allen

25 January 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/8192067730
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“What would you do w/more space, if you had it? Without a good answer, you'll not have the juice to really do #GTD.”

David Allen

5 January 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/155111659122339840
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“If u can't see everything you've committed to, at all levels, you'll be driven by latest and loudest. #SmallBizChat”

David Allen

3 June 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/15288280784
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“Things hold your attention hostage until you give them the appropriate attention.”

David Allen

27 June 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/85187098725974016
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Variant: Your attention will continue to be grabbed by anything until you give it the appropriate attention.

“If you could stop thinking, letting go of trying control your world w/your mind, where would your attention go?”

David Allen

3 December 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/10514000022343680
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World , Thinking

“Freedom to give full attention to what you want (vs. It being held hostage by unmanaged stuff) is the GTD promise.”

David Allen

17 December 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/148127884798730240
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Freedom