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"Deep Work" Quotes
"Deep Work" by Cal Newport emphasizes the importance of focused, distraction-free work in achieving high levels of productivity and success in a constantly distracted world.
time management | Published in 2016
Quotes
Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.
Deep work is not some nostalgic affectation of writers and early-twentieth-century philosophers. It’s instead a skill that has great value today.
To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.
The ability to concentrate intensely is a skill that must be trained.
Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.
The task of a craftsman is to make something beautiful by the act of creation, not to sell it to the highest bidder.
A deep life is a good life, any way you slice it.
If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.
Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity.
Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.
