David Allen (author) Quotes

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the prese...

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with ol...

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to ge...

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and a...

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

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

Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you t...

At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, wit...

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement abo...

The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for ...

Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to...

Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the v...

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the righ...

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and...

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.

Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the...

The better you get, the better you better get.