David Allen

“The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it”

“It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company”

“When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.”

“The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.”