Quotes by Merlin Mann

Merlin Mann

A lot of the best work I’ve ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

Different

Expectations

Space

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

Priorities

All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark

Buddhism

Helping

Self

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

Attention

Demand

Marketing

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.

Focus

Heart

Sweat

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

Being Yourself

Good Luck

Interesting

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

Coffee

Ironic

Mosaics

Come back, paragraphs. America needs you.

America

Need You

Needs

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

Creative

Magic

People

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

Creative

Each Day

Stopping

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Addresses

Agree

America

Attention

Being Yourself

Block

Break

Buddhism

Coffee

Cold

Cost

Couple

Cows

Crazy

Creative

Demand

Design

Dies

Differences

Different

Distraction

Doctors

Doors

Each Day

Elephants

Enemy

Excuse

Exercise

Expectations

Fake

Focus

Funny Things

Games

Glasses

Good Luck

Good Work

Groups

Guy

Hands

Hats

Heart

Helping

Improvement

Input

Inspiration

Interesting

Interesting Things

Internet

Iphone

Ironic

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Quotes by Merlin Mann

Merlin Mann

A lot of the best work I’ve ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

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

All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark

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

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

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.

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

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

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