Quotes About Awareness

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. —CHARLES DARWIN

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. —Peter F.

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. —Will Rogers

Getting Things Done is not some new technology or invention—it simply makes explicit the principles at work within what we all do implicitly. But with that awareness, you can then leverage those principles consciously to create more elegant results.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. —Peter F. Drucker

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. —Nadia Boulanger It's

In karate there is an image that's used to define the position of perfect readiness: "mind like water." Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond. How does the water respond? The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm. It doesn't overreact or underreact.

Clearing the mind and being flexible are key.

give all our attention to the opportunity before us.

What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?

It's likely that you also have more internal commitments currently in play than you're aware of.

Getting Things Done is not simply about getting things done. It's about being appropriately engaged with your work and life.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open for everything. —Shunryu Suzuki

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open for everything. —Shunryu Suzuki And

You've probably made many more agreements with yourself than you realize, and every single one of them—big or little—is being tracked by a less-than-conscious part of you. These are the "incompletes," or "open loops," which I define as anything pulling at your attention that doesn't belong where it is, the way it is.

There is always more to do than you can do, and you can do only one thing at a time. The key is to feel as good about what you're not doing as about what you are doing at that moment. Time

Rule your mind or it will rule you. —Horace Between

the focus we hold in our minds affects what we perceive and how we perform.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. —Nadia Boulanger

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project, or situation—not about it. If you actually did this suggested exercise, you were required to structure your thinking toward an outcome and an action, and that does not usually happen without a consciously focused effort. Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it.

T]he last thing a fish notices is water.

Minute-to-minute and day-to-day you don't have time to think. You need to have already thought.