David Allen Quotations | Page 2

Well you know, for my experience, your head's for having ideas, not for holding them.

I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few juries ever acquit.

I think Anne is just perfect (for this job).

Land on Mars' as a project still comes down to something like 'Call Fred about the Mars budget proposal' that can be accomplished as soon and as easily as any other activity in our inventory of work at hand.

OPAC is the policymaking board, ... ODFW is for the implementation.

People are going to have to think twice once they hire more than 10 employees.

Our primary role is to identify intellectual property that is disclosed to us by (researchers), patent protect and commercialize it,

Remember, you're the one who creates speed, because you're the one who allows stuff to enter your life.

It feels great, ... That's what I'm here for.

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We need to provide better supervision of our kids when we have kids over.

We played awfully well. I hate to say we could do better ... but I think most of the guys would say we could.

Thousands of executives and professionals and homemakers have their own automatic labelers, ... and my archives are full of their comments, like, 'Incredible -- I wouldn't have believed what a difference it makes!' the labeler will be used to label your file folders, binder spines and numerous other things.

Tricks are for the not-so-smart, not-so-conscious part of us. To a great degree, the highest performing people I know are those who have installed the best tricks in their lives.

We are hoping to get through the season without any problems with local bears. Public lands are not the only issue, and we recommend people maintain their own lands too.

Well, guess where most of those fires and crises come from? Correct - from secondary things that were ignored because of all the fires and crises. This syndrome does not self-correct, it self-perpetuates.

Where do most people hang out socially at home? The kitchen. No more maids, no more servants. Today, most of us live another lifestyle entirely, in which we're all in it together, and that's the fun.

We want to be sure we have it all right. Reconciling all the various salaries between the two companies was more complicated than expected. We didn't want to put it in place before it was ready.

We're still waiting to hear what resources are needed.

Whenever I made a traffic stop (Hobbes was) always barking, creating noise. Nobody will really know how many times she saved me from being assaulted.

With excellent company results, everyone should do very well.

Well, yeah, I get to decide what I publish, which is nice.

We will consolidate our existing Dallas headquarters and Plano contact center into a single convenient location with room for expansion, lowering our facility costs.

We are excited to begin offering the Living Balance Sheet to our field force, which will transform the way our financial representatives do business. It will help our agents distinguish themselves in what has become an increasingly competitive environment.

There is some growling. There's always growling with changes.

To have nearly half of employment in manufacturing at a time when we're losing manufacturing in Michigan and in the United States, is certainly something we need to concentrate on.

We were playing hardball and almost twisting their arm.

As the early years advanced, we were able to hit singles, then doubles, then triples, then home runs.

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It would be rude not to share what I know with those who want to hear it.

The sense of not having control is the greatest human fear. If you don't know what the very next thing to do is, it freaks you out. The hardest thing is to get past the stage where you don't do anything.

Sometimes the greatest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the decks.

Actually, I would go insane in New York, so it is good I am where I am. We're in the country. If things get too tense, I can go for a walk with the dog or watch the rabbits playing in the field.

Actually I worked with others in small partnerships for most of my career.

Once you've taken inventory, you can start to make sense of your runway. But then comes a second challenge: finding the time to do what you need to do.

Your power is proportional to your ability to relax.

A lot of on-line comics have very involved storylines, and even though the archive is online, it is faster to flip open a book and read than plow through an electronic archive.

Also, real-world events can be reflected in a strip more easily since there is no long production process between the creation of the strip and its delivery to the reader. An artists can change his mind about the direction of the story right up to the point of publication.

This partnership of resources is a positive for our customers and farmers.

There's a subtle but critical difference between something that is long term and something in the category of 'someday/maybe'. Either a project is an open loop to close, as soon as possible, or it is not.

It's already unwieldy with almost 50 people with different languages.

Its good to get a win. We lost a tough one on Tuesday. It was good to get the win. We got hits when we needed to get hits.

Danville has a great pool of friendly, smart, and dependable people who provide superior service to our clients. This level of service has impressed our clients and enabled our Danville team to grow faster than expected. Danville's community leaders have also provided tremendous support and a business-friendly environment during this year of rapid growth.

The next time you want to hires someone and are evaluating performance and skill sets, look at the person's ability to get ready fast. When has she been really surprised (positively or negatively)? How long did it take her to integrate it and navigate a positive response?

The base salaries for all management employees are being reviewed with those below market to be adjusted. I haven't heard of any downward adjustment.

It's Bill who's there at the center every day and it's Bill who has hustled and made all the bookings. He's devoted a lot of time to the center.

I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end.

The new compensation plan is probably not as rich as it was under ISG. ISG would probably have had to make an adjustment too.

Anyway, I'm only willing and interested in growing the size of the business when I have an assurance that the delivery vehicles match the quality of the message.

Seriously, people still like the feel and smell of a book. It doesn't need batteries, cables, and you never get spammed.

So a core unique aspect of what Getting Things Done is about, is it deals with the thought process that has to be applied on your stuff before you actually know what to organize or can manage that inventory.

That's a growth opportunity for desktop CPUs as they evolve into a new form factor and usage model.

That's a lot of kids drinking on a regular basis. One child would be too many, especially if it's yours.

I hope you understand there is much more here than the state is saying.

I miss that. It's very, very quiet in my patrol car.

I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.

I'm happy that it's over with and I know where I'm going. I'm real excited about going out there and just playing football. The good thing about it is that I can get a great education and I get to play the sport I love.

If you have a son or daughter, there is a risk regardless of how you raise them.

If you'll be doing something you'd love to be doing anyway, get started, and don't kid yourself. If you're just thinking you'll putter around with something because it'll make you a little money, don't bother.

If you leave them stuck in 'In,' then you've got to rethink every time you open your e-mails.

In the Haitian community, a lot of the parents believe the teacher is in charge of everything. They are intimidated to come to you, but you have to go to them and build that trust.

I look at 2005 as the year where, for the first time, Moore's Law continued but delivered more and more unique benefits in the CPU as opposed to just more speed. And I find that significant.

I know it's fashionable in some circles to predict that all strips will be animated in the future, thanks to massive CPU power, wide pipes and powerful animation software, but I don't see it.

If you want to publish on the web you don't need a print shop, or an editor, or a publisher. You can just slap it up yourself and wait for traffic.

If you want to catch fish, and really enjoy the sport, you will maintain your lures and line in some organized fashion. The best at it will always have their tackle ready.

Beginning drivers seem to make a lot of jerky movements with the wheel. Actually they're making smooth movements to very short horizons.

By printing cases on-line, these printers provide a dependable means to substantially reduce packaging operating costs by eliminating the need for preprinted cases.

If I don't know how a title will sell, I do a small run and scale up quickly if demand appears. Because I can now print as few as 100 books and turn a small profit I tend to keep all my titles in print.

You don't have time to do any project, because you actually can't do a project - you can only take action steps.

The group was immediately misunderstood by this community. What the town needed was to get going.

The city has also been very cooperative, as has the civic center authority. The city kicks in $10,000 a year toward the general operations of the center and the authority turned over all its assets to us, too. We all have a vested interest in seeing our civic center stay open. It's a good facility. We want people to use it and hope it stays that way.

the first 15 laps were pretty scary today.

All the growth rates for 2004 and 2005 and forecast for 2006 all point to mobile. ... It's not just us saying it. It's happening around the world.

The management of PCs -- we're going to see some really nice enhancements in 2006 on the corporate side.