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David Allen's insights on Priorities aren't theoretical—they're battle-tested wisdom from someone who operated at the highest level. This collection distills that experience into quotable principles, each with source context for verification. When you're navigating Priorities in the real world, these quotes offer the kind of practical guidance that only comes from direct experience.
"When you "have to get organized," you're probably not appropriately invested yet in what you need to get organized for."
Website: Wikiquote - David Allen (Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life (2003))
"[A]nything that is held only in "psychic RAM" will take up either more or less attention than it actually deserves. The reason to collect everything is not that everything is equally important, it's that it's not. Incompletions, uncollected, take on a dull sameness in the sense of the pressure they create and the attention they tie up. Ch. 11"
Website: Wikiquote - David Allen (Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001))
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