By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
“Getting organized just means you’ve glued handles onto the various stuff in your life — you’ll still need to pick it up and carry… — Merlin Mann Copy Share
Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD. — Merlin Mann Copy Share
Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission… — Merlin Mann Copy Share
Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as… — Merlin Mann Copy Share
People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong. — Merlin Mann Copy Share
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon. — Merlin Mann Copy Share
Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work. — Merlin Mann Copy Share
Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping. — Merlin Mann Copy Share
If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve. — Merlin Mann Copy Share
You're gonna die. You're gonna die. And nobody's gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter, or to… — Merlin Mann Copy Share
“Put plainer, my sense is that western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to carry a… — Merlin Mann Copy Share
I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a… — Merlin Mann Copy Share
Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But it doesn't… — Merlin Mann Copy Share
A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority. — Merlin Mann Copy Share
