Merlin Mann Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

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

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

A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.

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.

Put plainer, my sense is that western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to carry a goddamn BlackBerry.

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

Make the time to be scared of more interesting things

Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.

If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.

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.