“We have an information economy that’s dependent on complex systems that change rapidly.” — Cal Newport Complex systems Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I respect: creating something meaningful and then presenting it to the world,” — Cal Newport Creativity Copy Share Image
“You don’t need a rarified job; you need instead a rarified approach to your work.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Neither Wozniak nor Jobs left their regular jobs: This was strictly a low-risk venture meant for their free time.” — Cal Newport Free time Copy Share Image
“High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)” — Cal Newport Quality work Copy Share Image
“Bad courses, with incompatible professors and unreasonable requirements, are the key to developing an ulcer.” — Cal Newport Education Copy Share Image
“To have a mission is to have a unifying focus for your career.” — Cal Newport Career Copy Share Image
“regardless of how you feel about your job right now, adopting the craftsman mindset will be the foundation on which you’ll build… — Cal Newport Craftsman Copy Share Image
“deep work. If you haven’t mastered this foundational skill, you’ll struggle to learn hard things or produce at an elite level.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“I follow a rule with my life that if something is scary, do it. I’ve lived everywhere in America, and for me,… — Cal Newport Fear Copy Share Image
“Jordan had a name for the worries about what his friends are doing with their lives and whether his accomplishments compare favorably:… — Cal Newport Distractions Copy Share Image
“It’s as if our species has evolved into one that flourishes in depth and wallows in shallowness, becoming what we might call… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Basic economic theory tells us that if you want something that’s both rare and valuable, you need something rare and valuable to… — Cal Newport Demand Copy Share Image
“Driven by this insight, while my classmates contemplated their true calling, I went seeking opportunities to master rare skills that would yield… — Cal Newport Wisdom Copy Share Image
“E-mail inboxes, in theory, can distract you only when you choose to open them, whereas instant messenger systems are meant to be… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Within the overall structure of a project there is always room for individuality and craftsmanship… One hundred years from now, our engineering… — Cal Newport Architecture Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear,” Martin said. “What they want to… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Overall, Pardis’s most important commitment was to patience. She didn’t try to force a direction for her working life, but instead built… — Cal Newport Life Copy Share Image
“there’s something liberating about the craftsman mindset: It asks you to leave behind self-centered concerns about whether your job is “just right,”… — Cal Newport Craftsman Copy Share Image
“I am suggesting that you put aside the question of whether your job is your true passion, and instead turn your focus… — Cal Newport Passion Copy Share Image
“when paying more than $1,000 a day to write the chapter in a suite of an old hotel down the street from… — Cal Newport Home office Copy Share Image
“Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. For… — Cal Newport Fitness Copy Share Image
“I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I’d used email… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Stephenson summarizes his communication policy as follows: Persons who wish to interfere with my concentration are politely requested not to do so,… — Cal Newport Communication Copy Share Image
“Does it really help your work to be constantly connected? To do so, she did something extreme: She forced each member of… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Throughout most of human history, to be a blacksmith or a wheelwright wasn’t glamorous. But this doesn’t matter, as the specifics of… — Cal Newport History Copy Share Image
“Deep work should be a priority in today’s business climate. But it’s not. I’ve just summarized various explanations for this paradox. Among… — Cal Newport Business Copy Share Image
“In a seminal 1981 paper, the economist Sherwin Rosen worked out the mathematics behind these “winner-take-all” markets. One of his key insights… — Cal Newport Outstanding performance Copy Share Image
“study the brain behavior of subjects presented with both positive and negative imagery. She found that for young people, their amygdala (a… — Cal Newport Focus Copy Share Image
“what deliberate practice actually requires. Its core components are usually identified as follows: (1) your attention is focused tightly on a specific… — Cal Newport Deliberate practice Copy Share Image
“focus completely and without distraction on a single research task. (He typically divides the writing of a scholarly paper into three discrete… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
![“Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear,” Martin said. “What they want to hear is ‘Here’s how you get an agent, here’s how you write a script,’… but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.” quote by Cal Newport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dce/cal-newport-1302_wanted-hear_nobody-ever-takes-note-of-my-advice-beca_271642.jpg)
![“Stephenson summarizes his communication policy as follows: Persons who wish to interfere with my concentration are politely requested not to do so, and warned that I don’t answer e-mail… lest [my communication policy’s] key message get lost in the verbiage, I will put it here succinctly: All of my…” quote by Cal Newport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09a/cal-newport-1302_communication_stephenson-summarizes-his-communication_2260576.jpg)
