Selected Quotes from "Getting Things Done"


There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

If you're waiting to have a good idea before you have any ideas, you won't have many ideas.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it.

When you're not sure where you're going, you'll never know when enough is enough.

Function often follows from. Give yourself a context for capturing thoughts, and thoughts will occur that you don't yet know you have.

Bailing water in a leaky boat diverts energy from rowing the boat.

Without a next action, there remains a potentially infinite gap between the current reality and what you need to do.

Bright people have the capability of freaking out faster and more dramatically than anyone else.


source: "Getting Things Done", David Allen
keywords: quotes,gtd
date: 12/31/2004