285 Quotes by David Allen

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what’s happening to you, you won’t even consider the option that you could manage it better.

You can’t manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it’s more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Every decision to act is an intuitive one. The challenge is to migrate from hoping it’s the right choice to trusting it’s the right choice.

Frankly, as soon as you have two things to do stored only in your mind, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do them both at the same time. This produces a pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pinpointed.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard.

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn’t come from having too much to do; it’s the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

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.

It’s hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.