Summary: Getting things done David Allen

A good system is never static.

that most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Your ability to be productive is directly proportional to your ability to relax

Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein

The key to greater productivity, therefore, is to get all the things you want to do out of your head and into a workable system that will dictate and control your actions

the key to getting more things done doesn’t lie in learning how to do more but in how to think more clearly, and in creating circumstances where there is an absence of stress

This is a huge waste of creativity

Instead of allowing their minds to function at high levels of performance, many people fill their brains with the mundane and routine details of everyday life

The human brain has creative capacities and powers many people only glimpse for a few minutes in their lifetimes

Think like a man of ac tion, act like a man of thought.”

– Henry Bergson