Merlin Mann Quotes
Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.
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.
Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.
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.
Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.
People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.
People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.
You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.
It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.
Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.
A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.
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.
A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.
Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'
Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD.
Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.
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.
By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.
Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.
