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:

To know and to be clear about the purpose of any activity are prime directives for appropriate focus, creative development, and cooperation.

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Getting Things Done:

Often the only way to make a hard decision is to come back to the purpose of what you’re doing.

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Getting Things Done:

Let’s face it: if there’s no good reason to be doing something, it’s not worth doing.

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Getting Things Done:

…if you don’t really know when you’ve met your purpose or when you’re off track, you don’t have a viable directive.

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Getting Things Done:

…something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.

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Getting Things Done:

…you won’t see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

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Getting Things Done:

One of the most powerful life skills, and one of the most important to hone and develop for both professional and personal success, is creating clear outcomes.

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Getting Things Done:

The great thing about external brainstorming is that in addition to capturing your original ideas, it can help generate many new ones…

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Getting Things Done:

Determining what might go most wrong in a situation is at times the best way to generate the best ideas about how to make it successful.

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Getting Things Done:

The habit of clarifying the next action on projects, no matter what the situation, is fundamental to you staying in relaxed control.

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