"You don't actually do a project; you can……" — David Allen
"You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done."
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55 Quotes by David Allen
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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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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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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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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.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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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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