Up: [[Experiencing Time]] > [!Orbit] Annie Dillard > How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. > [!Orbit] William James > Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an incomplete task. > [!Orbit] [[Tama Kieves]] > Being overwhelmed does not come from too much to do. It comes from lack of clarity. When you’re clear, you know you don’t need to do everything. You just have to do the right thing. > [!Orbit] Albert Einstein > The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. > [!Orbit] Lin Yutang > Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. > [!Orbit] Kerry Gleason > This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. > [!Orbit] Thomas Merton > To commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of modern times. > [!Orbit] David Allen in *Ready for Anything* > ….the freer we are in our heads, the more creative output we can experience and deliver. (p.242) > [!Orbit] Vilfredo Pareto in *The Pareto Principle* > 20% of any process will yield 80% of the results. > [!Orbit] Alvin Toffler > You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction. > [!Orbit] [[Oliver Burkeman]] in *Four Thousand Weeks* > The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things. > [!Orbit] [[Oliver Burkeman]] in *Four Thousand Weeks* > A plan can only ever be a present-moment statement of intent… The future… is under no obligation to comply. > [!Orbit] Charles Dickens > … the mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day. > [!Orbit] Francine Jay > My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do. > [!Orbit] William Blake > I must create a System, or be enslav’d by another Man’s.