Quotes on Productivity and GTD

[Anonymous]

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials."

--Lin Yutang

[spectecGTD]

"A vision without a task is but a dream;
A task without a vision is drudgery;
A vision and a task is the hope of the world"

[Anonymous]

Sow a thought, reap an action;
Sow an action, reap a habit;
Sow a habit, reap a character;
Sow a character, reap a destiny.

Gordon

[Anonymous]

Is it Friday yet?

Mark in Texas

[TesTeq]

Just do it!
TesTeq

[sdauer]

"What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter." - Peter F. Drucker

[Ashok Atluri]

The Way is in training. - Miyamoto Musashi (The Book of Five Rings)

[spring]

If you leave it till the last minute, it only takes a minute to do.

[taxgeek]

"Nothing is worth doing that is not worth doing well."

[Anonymous]

Where there's a will there's a way out.

[Anonymous]

Don't just do something, sit there.

[stargazer_rick]

"The more you sweat in peace the less you bleed in war." - Asian military proverb from Ready for Anything.

[spectecGTD]

"On the fields of hesitation bleach the bones of countless armies, who on the eve of victory waited, and waiting, perished."

(Attibuted to Hannibal, although I've never been able to find the reference in writing)

[spring]

I'd rather eat soap than little stones.

[spectecGTD]

There are really only two problems in life:

1) You know what you want but don't know how to get it;

2) You don't know what you want.

[Anonymous]

Not sure where this is from (maybe I made it up? anyone recognize?)

"Be kind to the person you are going to be tomorrow."

[AdamK]

Not sure where this is from (maybe I made it up? anyone recognize?)

"Be kind to the person you are going to be tomorrow."

Whoops, I hate it when I don't log in.

Adam

[apinaud]

I am also not sure where this came from, but my dad uses it a lot...

The Human mind is like a parachute... It is open when it is in use.

[Ashok Atluri]

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 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 (quoted in Ready for Anything)

[kross1026]

Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?

or a twist on that one I just created...

Why put off at all if you can delegate it today? :wink:

[Anonymous]

Please put on my tomb stone: "He Shouldn've Ignored It"

[Eric Mack]

Not much I can add personally; however, Benjamin Franklin had quite a few things to say about being productive. (http://www.ericmackonline.com/emo/emonline.nsf/dx/franklin-on-getting-things-done)

[Anonymous]

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

-- Samuel Beckett

[Ashok Atluri]

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom;
Nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration;
And for him without concentration there is no peace.
And for the unpeaceful, how can be there happiness?
- Bhagavada Gita

[kross1026]

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time;
serenity, that nothing is"
--- Thomas S. Szasz

[Anonymous]

Ask with Intent,
Listen without Excuse,
Act with Courage

Stephen Covey

[ADD GTDer]

"A place for everything and everything in its place."