Productivity advice from Mark Twain

by John on February 18, 2009

From Mark Twain:

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex and overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

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Aaron 02.18.09 at 19:10

Mark Twain, Agile Coach, circa 1880

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Reza 02.18.09 at 22:14

Chinese say that “big things can be reduced to small things and small things can be reduced to nothing”. I find it in a programming book some years ago.

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Setia 02.19.09 at 06:39

Thanks ….for the advice

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Geoff 02.19.09 at 12:20

That sounds familiar.
Great minds think alike :)

The Four Precepts

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John Venier 02.19.09 at 12:21

I think “Innocents Abroad” has some of the best humor written in English. Up there with Pynchon’s “Vineland”.

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