Hard work Quote by Cal Newport

“attempting to schedule deep work in an ad hoc fashion is not an effective way to manage your limited willpower.)”

— Cal Newport

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature,…

— Albert Camus

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

— Martin Scorsese

“the pool of individuals to whom the monastic philosophy applies is limited—and that’s okay. If you’re outside this pool, its radical simplicity shouldn’t evince…

— Cal Newport

Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others that a…

— John Maus

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

— George MacDonald

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

— Tenzin Palmo

“Counselees need to structure hard tasks by scheduling them.”

— Jay E. Adams

“From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs…

— Victor Hugo

“Time given out through jobs can be channeled into something productive”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Monasticism resonated with me, with my imperfect, impulsive self, because it encompasses all human activity and asks that the disparate parts and moments of…

— Paul Wilkes

Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the…

— Martin Luther