Citas de Merlin Mann

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

  Merlin Mann

  Creative, Groups, Jogging

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2009

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• La basura sin sentido de tu pasado te impide aprovechar las oportunidades y te impone limitaciones inútiles. Elimina los trastos y crea espacio para el resto de tu vida. En definitiva, no se trata sólo de ordenar la casa, sino de liberar el corazón.

  Merlin Mann

  Success, Moving, Heart

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• Nunca dejes que el tipo de la escoba decida cuántos elefantes puede haber en el desfile.

  Merlin Mann

  Elephants, Guy, Parades

  Twitter post from Apr 20, 2010

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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

  Couple, Crazy, Lying

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2009

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• 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

  Attention, Missions, Mission Statement

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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

  Cost, More Time, More Money

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• Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

  Merlin Mann

  Trabajo, Pensamiento, Comprensión

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

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  Marketing, Attention, Demand

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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

  Moving, Hands, Funny Things

  "The strange allure (and false hope) of email bankruptcy". www.43folders.com. May 30, 2007.

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

  Merlin Mann

  Interesting, Scared, Interesting Things

  Inbox Zero theme statement at "Kung Fu Grippe" personal blog, www.kungfugrippe.com. 2012.

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• 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.

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  Wall, Silly, Moving

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• People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

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  Couple, Glasses, Shoes

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• I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

  Merlin Mann

  Way, Hats, Projects

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• Sentirse creativo produce un gran trabajo aproximadamente del mismo modo que "sentirse médico" te convierte en un cirujano torácico dotado.

  Merlin Mann

  Doctors, Design, Creative

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

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  Reality, Thinking, Enemy

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• Vas a morir. Vas a morir. Y a nadie le va a importar qué versión del iPhone usaste para hacer algo en Twitter, o para ir y publicar sobre tu evacuación intestinal en Facebook. Y ni siquiera estoy hablando de legado; estoy hablando del hecho de que personalmente me siento más vivo cuando estoy haciendo algo, y me siento menos vivo cuando estoy siendo llevado por algún uso odioso de mi atención del que no era consciente. Para mí, esa es la cuestión. Puedes comprarte las zapatillas de correr y puedes comprarte el Runner's World, pero hasta que no te las pones y sales por la puerta todos los días, no eres más que un gordo.

  Merlin Mann

  Men, Iphone, Doors

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• 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.

  Merlin Mann

  Exercise, Differences, Numbers

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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

  Thinking, Ledges, Improvement

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• 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.

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  Heart, Sweat, Focus

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• Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got.

  Merlin Mann

  Input, Made

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• 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.

  Merlin Mann

  Lucha, Gente, Falsa

  "Kung Fu Grippe" personal blog, www.kungfugrippe.com. 2010.

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

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  Stupid, People, Suffering

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• Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

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  People, Creative, Magic

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• Muchos de los mejores trabajos que he hecho empezaron como algo completamente distinto porque me di permiso para tener espacio en torno a mi tiempo y mis expectativas.

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  Space, Expectations, Different

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

  Merlin Mann

  Iphone, Remember, Dies

  "'Back to Work' Podcast". 5by5 Studios podcasts,

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