David Allen Quotes

Complaining is a sign that someone isn’t willing to risk moving on a changeable situation, or won’t consider the immutable circumstance in his or her plans.

Your attention will continue to be grabbed by anything until you give it the appropriate attention.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. — Dee Hock

Almost every project could be done better, and an infinite quantity of information is now available that could make that happen.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Get things under control first, then get focused. If your ship is sinking, you don't care where it's pointed.

Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: [...] The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.

[A]nything that is held only in "psychic RAM" will take up either more or less attention than it actually deserves. The reason to collect everything is not that everything is equally important, it's that it's not. Incompletions, uncollected, take on a dull sameness in the sense of the pressure they create and the attention they tie up.

Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. — Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

the real problem is a lack of clarity and definition about what a project really is,

I suggest that you use your mind to think about things, rather than to think of them. You want to be adding value... not simply reminding yourself they exist.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. — Peter F.

Every thought deserves its own place in the universe. How & where do you capture yours?