“ All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone, Blaise Pascal famously wrote in the late seventeenth century. Cal Newport
“ A job, in Wrzesniewski’s formulation, is a way to pay the bills, a career is a path toward increasingly better work, and a calling is work that’s an important part of your life and a vital part of you… Cal Newport
“ Fully embrace Rogowski's closing advice: Leave good evidence of yourself. Do good work....Use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world. Cal Newport
“ The message at the core of this book: Working right trumps finding the right work—it’s a simple idea, but it’s also incredibly subversive, as it overturns decades of folk career advice all focused on… Cal Newport
“ The journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a writing mode on a moment’s notice, as is required by the deadline-driven n… Cal Newport
“ Tactic that works well for me is to be clear in my refusal but ambiguous in my explanation for the refusal. The key is to avoid providing enough specificity about the excuse that the requester has the… Cal Newport
“ Monastic philosophy of deep work scheduling. This philosophy attempts to maximize deep efforts by eliminating or radically minimizing shallow obligations. Cal Newport
“ If the subject dedicates enough time to such endeavors to reach maximum cognitive intensity—the state in which real breakthroughs occur. This is why the minimum unit of time for deep work in this phil… Cal Newport
“ Differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain. Cal Newport
“ Deliberate practice to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an… Cal Newport
“ Cultivating concentration so intense that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant, or to worry about problems.) Cal Newport
“ Constantly sending and receiving e-mail messages like human network routers, with frequent breaks for quick hits of distraction. Cal Newport
“ Attention restoration theory (ART), which claims that spending time in nature can improve your ability to concentrate. Cal Newport
“ You’re either remarkable or invisible, says Seth Godin in his 2002 bestseller, Purple Cow. Cal Newport
“ Within the overall structure of a project there is always room for individuality and craftsmanship… One hundred years from now, our engineering may seem as archaic as the techniques used by medieval c… Cal Newport
“ Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on. In Cal Newport
“ When you use craft to leave the virtual world of the screen and instead begin to work in more complex ways with the physical world around you, you’re living truer to your primal potential. Craft makes… Cal Newport
