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:

There may be enthusiasm about the purpose of a project but at the same time some resistance to actually fleshing out what fulfilling it in the real world might look like.

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Getting Things Done:

Right now you have the ability to focus on successful results, brainstorm, organize your thinking, and get moving on your next steps.

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Getting Things Done:

The smart part of us sets up things for us to do that the not-so-smart part responds to almost automatically, creating behavior that produces high-performing results.

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Getting Things Done:

We trick ourselves into doing what we ought to be doing.

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Getting Things Done:

The big secret to efficient creative and productive thinking and action is to put the right things in your focus at the right time.

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Getting Things Done:

You must have a dedicated, individual, self-contained workspace – at home, at work, and even in transit.

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Getting Things Done:

Everyone must have a physical locus of control from which to deal with everything…

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Getting Things Done:

…you’ll find that a weekend spent setting up a home workstation can make a revolutionary change in your ability to organize your life.

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Getting Things Done:

…a good processing style, the right tools, and good interconnected systems at home and at work can make traveling a highly leveraged way to get certain kins of work done.

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Getting Things Done:

…good tools don’t necessarily have to be expensive. Often, on the low-tech side, the more ‘executive’ something looks, the more dysfunctional is really is.

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