Career Quote by Cal Newport

“It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.”

— Cal Newport

“if it’s rare and valuable, it’s not easy to get. This insight brought me into the world of performance science, where I encountered the…

— 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…

— Cal Newport

“Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable. I like the term “stretch” for describing what deliberate practice feels like,”

— Cal Newport

“when a branch of psychology, sometimes called performance psychology, began to systematically explore what separates experts (in many different fields) from everyone else. In…

— Cal Newport

“Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that’s exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands…. Deliberate practice is above…

— Cal Newport

The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even…

— David Brooks

“deliberate practice—practice designed to develop mastery in the specific areas required by whatever role or position we are targeting.”

— David DiSalvo

“In other words, deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance.”

— Angela Duckworth

Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy.…

— Kevin Maney

Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to…

— Ramana Maharshi

“Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achievement. When you practice deliberately, you identify the tasks or knowledge that are…

— Susan Cain