DIY Planner - Quotations and Aphorisms on Planning and Productivity - Comments

"(Planning) the transactions of the day, ..." Victor Hugo

CathMac — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:28:27 -0400

Here is a Dell home page "Daily Inspiration" that brianna221 (aka Kim) recently posted. I thought it would make a nice addition to this thread.

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through
a labyrinth of the most busy life."

- Victor Hugo

measurement, thoughts and attributions

davida3 — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:36:51 -0400

Indeed all of those variations on a theme are interesting, as is the question of attribution- but I can absolutely guarantee that the final quotation where we say if we measure the wrong things in the wrong way , then wrong things may get done is the result of much observation of the health care system over the last years on the part of all three authors.

“What gets measured gets done.” Tom Peters

CathMac — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:25:14 -0400

“What gets measured gets done.”
Tom Peters - Title of his 1986 article

This quotation has also been attributed to Peter Drucker. Does anyone know --or have an educated guess-- as to whether Peters may have borrowed this business maxim from Drucker for his article title.

Below are some variations on the original quotation:

‘What gets measured ... creates accountability and therefore gets done.’
Thomas Baskind

What gets measured gets done; what gets recognized gets done even better.
Unknown

What gets measured gets done; what gets rewarded gets repeated.
Unknown

“Measurement alone is not enough to create accountability. You also need a commitment or buy in …”
Thomas Baskind

“Beware, what gets measured might just get done.”
Title of a performance measurement article by Dr. Davida De la Harpe, Dr. Paul Kavanagh and Mark Turner

“If we measure the wrong things in the wrong way, then wrong things may get done.”
Dr. Davida De la Harpe, Dr. Paul Kavanagh and
Mark Turner

~Cath

2 especially apt Planning and Productivity quotations

CathMac — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:43:30 -0400

...
“The secret of getting things done is to act.” Dante Alighieri

"First things first, but not necessarily in that order." Dr. Who
...
~Cath

Rocket Jones,
These two quotations are great. The first one has a GTD feel to it and probably belongs somewhere on the continuum between Plautus' "Dare to be wise; begin" and Nike's "Just Do it."

For me, the second quotation humorously speaks to the difficulty of prioritizing, especially when it comes to balancing the urgent against the important.

~Cath

A few more

Rocket Jones — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:13:30 -0400

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." Admiral Hyman G. Rickover.

“The secret of getting things done is to act.” Dante Alighieri

"First things first, but not necessarily in that order." Dr. Who

"It's easier to beg forgiveness than to get permission." unknown

"... the day's resolutions, not the years'." Henry Moore

CathMac — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:26:51 -0400

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'." Henry Moore

~Cath

thank you

Resident_Otaku — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:12:20 -0400

The result of bad speed typing i suppose.

Earliest Nike wearer

Lex — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:49:40 -0400

Plautus wore Nikes. 'Just Do It'.

Welcome

ygor — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:15:27 -0400

from an Anglophile Yank Admin
(I fixed some missing spaces in your post)
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

Ok, I dont know if anyone

Resident_Otaku — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:08:09 -0400

Ok, I dont know if anyone posted this one yet but i went cross-eyes half way down the page so i'm posting this anyway. so there!

"What is more dull than a discreet diary? One might as well have a discreet soul."
Henry Channon (British politition and diarist) *yay for brits!*

and on a different note, this is my first post!!! woo!
greetings from the little island over the pond!!!!

Killing Time

thag — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:36:44 -0500

"Think, also, of the ladies of the land weaving toilet cushions against the last day, not to betray too green an interest in their fates! As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

Henry David Thoreau - Walden

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I am but a simple caveman.

"If you want to do something, do it." Plautus

CathMac — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:03:32 -0500

~Cath

"Technological progress is like an axe ..." Albert Einstein

CathMac — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:13:25 -0500

This quotation is not directly productivity related but it reminded me of Ygor's quotation from Douglas Adams, posted on 4/17/07.

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
Albert Einstein.

"Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’, and ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’ ... In fact I’m sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for ‘productivity.’"
-- Douglas Adams, "How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet", The Sunday Times, August 29th 1999

~Cath

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. E. Roosevelt

CathMac — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:25:46 -0500

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
Eleanor Roosevelt

~Cath

try mail merge

supenguin — Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:27:37 -0500

I haven't tried anything like this yet, but I'd think a mail merge would work. Print out the calendar pages you want from Ygor's dynamic template. Figure out where on the page the quote would need to be for things to look right. Once you get one page figured out, copy it as many times as you need. Put the quotes you want in a file and mail merge into the areas of the pages you have set up for quotes. You could then print just the quote onto the calendar pages.

I realize you'll still need to create the list of quotes yourself, but at least this is a step in the right direction for what you want. If you've got a Linux system available and feel like messing with it, you could do something with the "fortune" command which does print out random quotes from a database of quotes. Apple did not include fortune with OS/X, at least not 10.4. Too bad.

-Kenny

Quotations and Aphorisms on Planning and Productivity

CathMac — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:39:06 -0400

"The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state."
John Ousterhout

Previous Quotations:

“What is the best use of my time right now?”
Alan Lakein – How To Get Control of Your Time and Your Life

The Law of Forced Efficiency - This law says that, 'There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.'
Brian Tracy

D*I*Y Planner - Quotations and Aphorisms on Planning and Productivity - Comments

"(Planning) the transactions of the day, ..." Victor Hugo

measurement, thoughts and attributions

“What gets measured gets done.” Tom Peters

2 especially apt Planning and Productivity quotations

A few more

"... the day's resolutions, not the years'." Henry Moore

thank you

Earliest Nike wearer

Welcome

Ok, I dont know if anyone

Killing Time

"If you want to do something, do it." Plautus

"Technological progress is like an axe ..." Albert Einstein

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. E. Roosevelt

try mail merge

Quotations and Aphorisms on Planning and Productivity

DIY Planner - Quotations and Aphorisms on Planning and Productivity - Comments