David G Allen Quotes

#1. Complaining is a sign that someone isn't willing to risk moving on a changeable situation, or won't consider the immutable circumstance in his or her plans.

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#2. art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. - Capt. J. A. Hatfield

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#3. Capturing ideas and input will become more and more critical as your life and work become more sophisticated. As you proceed in your career, for instance, you'll probably notice that your best ideas about work will not come to you at work.

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#4. The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

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#5. It can be difficult to accept the fact that a lot of birds have to be identified as "possible" or "probable.

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#6. The substantive issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real work is to manage our actions. That

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#7. Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

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#8. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection tool, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through. Second,

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#9. Chaos isn't the problem; how long it takes to find coherence is the real game. - Doc Childre and Bruce Crier

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#10. Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

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#11. A renegotiated agreement is not a broken one.

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#12. Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

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#13. Every decision to act is an intuitive one. The challenge is to migrate from hoping it's the right choice to trusting it's the right choice.

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#14. Taking the inventory of your current work at all levels will automatically produce greater focus, alignment, and sense of priorities.

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#15. An idealist believes that the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. - Sydney J. Harris

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#16. When you assess something as a problem instead of as something to simply be accepted as the way things are, you are assuming there is a potential resolution.

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#17. Nothing is certain but the truth

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#18. Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what's being presented - challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That creates engagement, which is the key to understanding.

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#19. One missed e-mail, untracked commitment, or decision avoided can have hugely magnified consequences.

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#20. Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

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#21. You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

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#22. Klara Sztucinski, and Elliott Kellman. The administrative

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#23. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

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#24. Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

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#25. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

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#26. It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

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#27. [T]he last thing a fish notices is water.

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#28. Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.

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#29. People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.

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#30. Suffice it to say that 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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#31. Many of us hold ourselves back from imagining a desired outcome unless someone can show us how to get there. Unfortunately, that's backward in terms of how our minds work to generate and recognize solutions and methods.

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#32. You can do anything, but not everything.

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#33. Organizations must create a culture in which it is acceptable that everyone has more to do than he or she can do, and in which it is sage to renegotiate agreements about what everyone is not doing.

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#34. A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.

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