Book Titles

Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

By David Allen

Year Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0349408941
Categories: Productivity, Time Management

149 Quotes Found

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Getting Things Done:

Even if you erase your thoughts after a few minutes, just the act of writing them down facilitates a constructive thinking process like nothing else.

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Getting Things Done:

We tend to think differently when we express with different equipment, and many people find that writing and drawing by hand unwraps a broader palette of ideas.

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Getting Things Done:

…capturing placeholders for anything that is incomplete or unprocessed… noticeably enhances your mental well-being and improves the quality of your communications and relationships…

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Getting Things Done:

When people… notice that without fail you receive, process, and organize in an airtight manner the exchanges and agreements they have with you, they begin to trust you in a unique way.

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Getting Things Done:

The price people pay when they break an agreement in the world is the disintegration of trust in the relationship – an automatic negative consequence.

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Getting Things Done:

…when you really take on the responsibility to capture and track what’s on your mind, you’ll think twice about making commitments internally that you don’t really need or want to make.

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Getting Things Done:

We are all starved for a win. It’s great to satisfy that by giving yourself doable tasks you can start and finish easily.

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Getting Things Done:

It’s the irony of professional development – the better you get, the better you’d better get.

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Getting Things Done:

A renegotiated agreement is not a broken one.

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Getting Things Done:

…anything that is held only in your head will take up either more or less attention than it deserves.

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