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Good ideas are infinitely available. We've just limited our availablitly to them. The music's not in the radio.

— David Allen

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

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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.

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

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

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

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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