Mosquitos ruin safaris. David Allen
The secret to getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one. Mark Twain
All sorts of things can be done in the long run, but you have to live through the short run to get there. Thomas Sowell
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. Robert Service
When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else we are the busiest people in the world. Eric Hoffer
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action. Arnold Toynbee
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that s creativity. Charles Mingus
The greatest potential for controlling the end exists at the point where the action takes place. Louis A. Allen
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn t the work he is supposed to be doing. Robert Benchley
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the marketplace and in the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequaled initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination. Eric Hoffer
Thinking and doing, doing and thinking these are the sum of all wisdom. Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out. Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage is only an accumulation of small steps. George Conrad
You can become quite sharp at working with your negative feedback system. If you become sensitive to it, you ll be able to sense small irritations. If you take the time to confront these situations and clear them at once, you ll probably stop most of the trouble before it ever happens. John-Roger
We must strive to achieve that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication. John Gardner
One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form. Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling
I have never met a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, did not appreciate the grind the discipline. Vince Lombardi
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action that does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. George Bernanos
Ten thousand flowers in spring. The moon in autumn. A cool breeze in summer. Snow in winter. If your mind isn t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. Wu-Men
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. Tom Robbins
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle- they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments. Alfred North Whitehead
You can only feel good about what you re not doing when you know what you re not doing. David Allen
An hour of effective, precise, hard, disciplined - and integrated thinking can be worth a month of hard work. Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work... while others party. If you're not consciously aware of putting forth the effort to exert self-guided integrated thinking... if you don't act beyond your feelings and you take the path of least resistance, then you're giving in to laziness and no longer control your life. David Kekich
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. Ambrose Bierce
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson
When you re in an earthquake on a unicycle juggling chain saws, the only way to survive is to tack down what you can tack down, so you can deal with what you can t. Stephen Chakwin
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. Dee Hock
Shit happens. Seth Godin
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. Peter F. Drucker
The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult. Mme. Du Deffand
The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. William Blake
I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don't know where to begin. Stephen Bayne
The beginning is the half of every action. Greek proverb
Chaos isn t the problem; it s how long it takes to find coherence that s the real game. Doc Childre & Bruce Cryer
God is in the details. Mies Van Der Rohe
Out of the strain of the doing, into the peace of the done. Julia Louis Woodruff
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. John W. Raper
Rule your mind or it will rule you. Horace
A really contented man has his yesterdays all filed away, his present in order and his tomorrow subject to instant revision. unknown
Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I finally got it all together but I forgot where I put it. unknown
Anxiety is usually caused by lack of control, organization, preparation and action. David Kekich
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and enjoy the dance. Alan Watts
The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Peter F. Drucker
To finish first, you must first finish. Rick Mears Race-car driver
No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something. George F. Nordenholt
The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets in our great men. Captain J.A. Hadfield
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. Elbert Hubbard
We all have times when we think more effectively, and times when we should not be thinking at all. Daniel Cohen
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. Kerry Gleeson
To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made. Stephen Covey
A really contented man has his yesterdays all filed away, his present in order and his tomorrow subject to instant revision. unknown
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. Robert Heinlein
We can do no great things only small things with great love. Mother Theresa
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior man exists in torture. Benedetto Croce
There are no problems only projects. David Allen