“Getting organized just means you’ve glued handles onto the various stuff in your life — you’ll still need to pick it up… — Merlin Mann Life Copy Share Image
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… — Merlin Mann Changed Copy Share Image
Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in… — Merlin Mann Attention Copy Share Image
Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as… — Merlin Mann Cost Copy Share Image
People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong. — Merlin Mann Couple Copy Share Image
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon. — Merlin Mann Creative Copy Share Image
Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work. — Merlin Mann Creative Copy Share Image
Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider… — Merlin Mann Ass Copy Share Image
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… — Merlin Mann Computer Copy Share Image
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,… — Merlin Mann Alive Copy Share Image
“Put plainer, my sense is that western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to… — Merlin Mann Western culture Copy Share Image
I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking… — Merlin Mann Aspect Copy Share Image
Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But… — Merlin Mann Dozen Copy Share Image
A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority. — Merlin Mann Funny Copy Share Image
A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have… — Merlin Mann Best work Copy Share Image
People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster. — Merlin Mann Inspiration Copy Share Image
Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade. — Merlin Mann Brooms Copy Share Image
Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite. — Merlin Mann Attention Copy Share Image
It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet… — Merlin Mann Advice Copy Share Image
People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer. — Merlin Mann Despise Copy Share Image
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those… — Merlin Mann Care Copy Share Image
Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their… — Merlin Mann Amount Copy Share Image
