“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
Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Making decisions when you can vs. when you have to makes for better decisions." by David Allen?
David Allen photo
David Allen 119
American productivity consultant and author 1945

Related quotes

“the better you think, the better decisions you make. the better decisions you make, the better actions you take. the better actions you take, the better results you get”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Source: Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

Leonard Cohen photo

“Never make a decision when you need to pee.”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

Ronald Reagan photo

“Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision, it might be well if you would ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago?”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Presidential debate (28 October 1980) http://www.juntosociety.com/pres_debates/carterreagan.html
1980s

Cecelia Ahern photo

“There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Byron Katie photo

“We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

Garth Nix photo

“I don't want to make a mistake," said the Will softly. "Better not to make a decision than to make a mistake."
"The whole House is going to fall down if you don't make a decision!”

Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer

Arthur argued.
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Grim Tuesday (2004), p. 319.

Thiago Silva photo

“Messi is a very quick and technically gifted player. When you face him you have to make decisions in an instant. When he approaches you, you have to make the sign of the cross and pray that everything will be alright.”

Thiago Silva (1984) Brazilian footballer

Interview with Globo Esporte, 2011 http://www.football-italia.net/node/13081

“You can grieve when someone dies. But when someone is near death, and there is the chance that you might prevent it if you make the right decision, anxiety takes over.”

Ross Thomas (1926–1995) 1926-1995 American writer

Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)

Larry Niven photo

“Any time seems long when you need to make a decision but can’t.”

Larry Niven book Grendel

Grendel (p. 252)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)

Ronald Reagan photo

“We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Address to the International Committee for the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. (17 September 1990)
Post-presidency (1989–2004)

Related topics