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

David Allen

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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.
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There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
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Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.
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There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!
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Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.
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