A Quote by David Allen

You don't manage priorities, you have them. — © David Allen
You don't manage priorities, you have them.

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For any Geordie, if you can't manage to play for Newcastle, then to get back and manage them it's something special.
When you're dealing with 25 men, all with different needs, some with egos, you need to manage that. If you can manage that group you get the best out of them.
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we're fighting for and our priorities and if we are spending $300 billion on tax cuts for people who don't need them and weren't even asking for them, and we are leaving out health care which is crushing on people all across the country, then I think we have made a bad decision and I want to make sure we're not shortchanging our long term priorities.
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.
I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.
As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.
How do we professionally manage content? We don’t. We shouldn’t manage content in the same way that we shouldn’t manage technology. Content and technology are merely a means to an end. What is the end? The end is the task the customer wishes to complete. That is what we should manage.
There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
Replacing physical priorities with spiritual priorities can change everything.
The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.
When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.
Egypt's priorities in fact are all related to the environment: food, water, health, energy, employment and education. Egypt is facing some very serious environmental challenges. The country has limited natural resources and has to decide how to manage these to meet the needs of a growing population.
You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.
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