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Engaging in complexity is a key to simplicity. Fear of it will haunt your inner recesses.

— David Allen

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Your conscious mind, like the computer screen, is a focusing tool, not a storage place.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)

It's great to clear your psychic decks so you can go into the weekend ready for refreshment and recreation, with nothing on your mind.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)

The goal is to get projects and situations off your mind, but not to lose any potentially useful ideas.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)

If you're waiting to have good ideas before you have any ideas, you won't have many ideas.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)

How much of this planning model do you really need..? [A]s much as you need to get the project off your mind.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.

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