Quote

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

David Allen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Allen
Ancestor
Action
Thought
Every
Waldo
Emerson
Ralph

More quotes by David Allen

Image
People allow themselves to get distracted I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.
David Allen
Image
Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.
David Allen
Image
Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.
David Allen
Image
You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.
David Allen
Image
Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
David Allen
Image
Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
David Allen
Image
What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.
David Allen
Image
Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes
David Allen
Image
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
Image
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
Image
'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.
David Allen
Image
You can do anything, but not everything.
David Allen
Image
You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
David Allen
Image
There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs
David Allen
Image
A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.
David Allen
Image
You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
David Allen
Image
The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.
David Allen
Image
Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.
David Allen
Image
The better you get, the better you better get.
David Allen
Image
Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
David Allen