"You can do anything, not everything"
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David Allen quotes (page 5 of 5)
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"It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment."
"Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed."
"A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world."
"You don't manage priorities, you have them."
"The better you get, the better you better get."
"If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve."