# Quote — David Allen, Getting Things Done

> [A]nything that is held only in "psychic RAM" will take up either more or less attention than it actually deserves. The reason to collect everything is not that everything is equally important, it's that it's not. Incompletions, uncollected, take on a dull sameness in the sense of the pressure they create and the attention they tie up.

- Author: [David Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-allen.md)
- Book: [Getting Things Done](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-allen/getting-things-done.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Allen#Getting_Things_Done:_The_Art_of_Stress-Free_Productivity_(2001)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-allen/getting-things-done/a-nything-that-is-held

## More from this book

> [Y]ou must have a clear picture in your mind of what success would look, sound, and feel like.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-allen/getting-things-done/y-ou-must-have.md)

> It's great to clear your psychic decks so you can go into the weekend ready for refreshment and recreation, with nothing on your mind.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-allen/getting-things-done/its-great-to-clear.md)

> The organizing system merely provides placeholders for all your oprn loops and options so your mind can... make the necessary intuitive, moment-to-moment strategic decisions.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-allen/getting-things-done/the-organizing-system.md)