Becoming better Quote by Cal Newport Download Open image ““Stop focusing on these little details,” it told me. “Focus instead on becoming better.”” — Cal Newport ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becoming better
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“Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.” — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
“Ignore everything else, just concentrate on the things you can change.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“many software companies now deploy the Scrum project management methodology, which replaces a lot of this ad hoc messaging with regular, highly structured, and… — Cal Newport 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 a Hogwarts-style… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
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“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“study by Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow. In this study, a group of management consultants were asked to disconnect for a full day… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Here’s the routine: Once a week I require myself to summarize in my “bible” a paper I think might be relevant to my research.… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a writing mode… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Not long into his 2010 TED talk on creativity and leadership, Derek Sivers plays a video clip of a crowd at an outdoor concert.… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Kirk’s path to American Treasures was incremental. He didn’t decide out of nowhere that he wanted to host a television show and then work… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Looking down from my throne full of thorns, I glanced at the people on Earth. Oh, man. I despised them. It wasn’t like they… — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
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“The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
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“Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“If you compete with others, you may not win. If you compete with yourself, you always win by becoming better.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image