Merlin Mann

small change

“Small Changes Stick.”

― Merlin Mann

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“In talking with happy people, I found they've all figured out ways to focus on three things: Good Decisions, Good Relationships and Good Work."

― Merlin Mann

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“Task are like Ducks. We should look to shoot them not store them."

― Merlin Mann

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“Getting organized just means you’ve glued handles onto the various stuff in your life — you’ll still need to pick it up and carry it around from time to time.”

― Merlin Mann

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"Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging."

― Merlin Mann

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"Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy."

― Merlin Mann

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"Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But it doesn't take long until you have acquired a pile of pebbles that's taller than you and heavier than you could ever hope to move, even if you wanted to do it over a few dozen trips. But for the person who took the time to hand you their pebble, it seems outrageous that you can't handle that one tiny thing."

― Merlin Mann

attention human mission

"Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement."

― Merlin Mann

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"Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade."

― Merlin Mann

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"Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected."

― Merlin Mann

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"People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer."

― Merlin Mann

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"Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality."

― Merlin Mann

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"You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge."

― Merlin Mann

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"Make the time to be scared of more interesting things."

― Merlin Mann

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"Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite."

― Merlin Mann

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"When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had."

― Merlin Mann

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"Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing."

― Merlin Mann

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"People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster."

― Merlin Mann

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"If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve."

― Merlin Mann