285 Quotes by David Allen

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.

Способность быть производительным прямо пропорциональна способности расслабляться.

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.

At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have?

When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.

Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limit - it's a lot easier to be irresponsible.

Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist.