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“If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
― David Allen

“You can do anything, but not everything.”
― David Allen

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.”
― David Allen

“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“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.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”
― David Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.”
― David Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. —J. Bronowski”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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

“You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen. —Leonardo da Vinci”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“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.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“I want people, when they realize they have been wrong about the world, to feel not embarrassment, but that childlike sense of wonder, inspiration, and curiosity that I remember from the circus, and that I still get every time I discover I have been wrong: “Wow, how is that even possible?”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“here’s the paradox: the image of a dangerous world has never been broadcast more effectively than it is now, while the world has never been less violent and more safe.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Look for systems, not heroes.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Look for causes, not villains.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
― William James

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
― William James

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
― William James

“To change one’s life:
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions.”
― William James

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
― William James

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
― William James, The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
― William James

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
― William James

“To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,”
― William James