Merlin Mann Famous Quotes
Reading Merlin Mann quotes, download and share images of famous quotes by Merlin Mann. Righ click to see or save pictures of Merlin Mann quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.
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.
I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.
Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. It's a pointless exercise that can never be anything but acrimonious and will only highlight unnecessary amounts of difference about things that ultimately don't really matter. Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure and don't worry about the numbers.
The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it's not just a question of tidying your house; it's a question of liberating your heart.
Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.
People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.
When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had.
Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely ... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem ... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters ... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.
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.
Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You're Either Lying Or Crazy.
People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.
Come back, paragraphs. America needs you.
Before you get good, you need to first stop sucking.
I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a certain topic - a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it.
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.
People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster.
Go a little easier on yourself, and in so doing, be prepared to make and do things that might seem silly at first. Just keep moving: don't ruminate and stare at the wall. Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.
Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.
Being consistent is WAY less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.
Stop. I'm not going to take any more input until I've made something with what I got.
