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David Allen
"Most often, the reason something is "on your mind" is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcomes is; you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust. That's why it's on your mind." --
Source : David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.36, Penguin
David Allen
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“Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.”
“In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with your body, right here and now. it is much safer than placing our hope in the future. If we cling to the idea of hope in the future, we might not notice the peace and joy that are available in the present moment. The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.”
“A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.”
“You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.”
“Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.”
“Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.”
Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.148, Yale University Press
“Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.”