Getting Things Done Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Vacation, Agreement

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• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

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• It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspiring, Success, Vision

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• The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Life, Positive, Business

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

  Alan Cohen

  Motivational, Change, Success

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• You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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• I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

  Henri Bergson

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

  Henri Bergson's speech at the Descartes Conference in Paris, 1937.

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• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Art, Business

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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• Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

  David Allen

  Procrastination, Ideas, Mind

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• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Life, Business

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Leadership, Art

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• 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.

  David Allen

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Retirement

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• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “Neale Donald Walsh's Little Book of Life: A User's Manual”, p.95, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

  Matsuo Basho

  Inspirational, Positive, Spring

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

  David Allen

  Time Management, Stuck, Lack Of Time

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• In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. People who live with excuses have things that can’t be done hovering around them all the time.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Order, People, Hovering

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

  David Allen

  Doe, Causes

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.32, Penguin

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, Matter

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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