Merlin Mann Quotes

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

Being consistent is WAY less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

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

Thing is: the internet's made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It's what's there. That's the basic equipment.

Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You're Either Lying Or Crazy.

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

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

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

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

People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster.

You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'

By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

Come back, paragraphs. America needs you.

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

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

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.

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

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.