David Allen Quotes
You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.
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My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
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…the organization chart will initially reflect the first system design, which is almost surely not the right one … as one learns, he changes the design …. Management structures also need to be changed as the system changes…
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When you say, 'I'm going to sing it once, and everyone is going to hear it forever,' that's kind of frightening.
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I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.
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You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.
