David Allen Quotes

On this page you can find the TOP of David Allen's best quotes! We hope you will find some sayings from Consultant David Allen's in our collection, which will inspire you to new achievements! There are currently 87 quotes on this page collected since December 28, 1945! Share our collection of quotes with your friends on social media so that they can find something to inspire them!
  • Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

    Moving   People   Focus  
    Source: www.stephanspencer.com
  • Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.

  • '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 (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.27, Penguin
  • You can do anything, not everything

    Can Do  
  • There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs

  • Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.

  • I think positive stress is actually a good thing. It's sort of the stretch goal "Wow, let me see how much faster I can run" or "Let me see how many more ideas I can generate in five minutes."

    Source: www.stephanspencer.com
  • It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.

    David Allen (2008). “Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life”, p.192, Penguin
  • The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

    Twitter post from May 30, 2009
  • Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

  • 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.

    Thinking   People   Mind  
  • Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence.

    "'Getting Things Done' Guru David Allen on Organizing Your Life". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. March 25, 2009.
  • Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.

    Change   Stress   Problem  
  • If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

    Twitter post from Apr 03, 2009
  • Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

  • 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.

    Clever   Stupid   Focus  
    Source: www.stephanspencer.com
  • You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

    David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.36, Penguin
  • Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.

    Mind   Reactions   Clear  
    Twitter post from Sep 09, 2009
  • Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

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

    David Allen (2008). “Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life”, p.197, Penguin
  • It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.

  • Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

  • A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.

  • Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

    Mind   Needs   Lists  
  • 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.

    Thinking   People   Way  
    Source: www.stephanspencer.com
  • Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.

  • Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention.

    Doe   Attention   Loops  
  • It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

    Easier   Ifs  
  • There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

    Mind   Done   Proportion  
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