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

Quote Image Quote Page Number

Getting Things Done:

Getting going of your own accord, before you’re forced to by external pressure and internal stress, builds a firm foundation of self-worth…

264

Getting Things Done:

…deciding on and taking real next actions – actually moving on something in the physical world – is the essence of productivity.

271

Getting Things Done:

Both e-mail and meetings are critical to organization life, but too often they fall into the category of necessary evils…

273

Getting Things Done:

Because of the way the mind developed, it is brilliant at recognition, but terrible at recall.

277

Getting Things Done:

…your mind is designed to have ideas, based upon pattern detection, but it isn’t design to remember much of anything!

277

Getting Things Done:

…uncompleted tasks take up room in the mind, which then limits clarity and focus.

278

Getting Things Done:

Providing yourself the right cues, which you will notices at the right time, about the right things, is a core practice of stress-free productivity.

281

Getting Things Done:

It is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workday world.

Getting Things Done:

An ambient angst pervades our society – there’s a sense that… we should be doing something that we’re not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution…