"The ancestor of every action is a thought.……" — David Allen
"The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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55 Quotes by David Allen
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Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
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Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.
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There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.
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You can do anything, but you can't do everything
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Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the…
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Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you…
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Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.
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It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus,…
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Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the…
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You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.
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Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been…
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Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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