Best 24 Deep Work Quotes by Cal Newport
We have curated a list of the best Deep Work quotes. Let’s get a look at the list of quotes.
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World is written by Cal Newport and published in 2016. This book is based, how not to do sallow work? and how to give complete focus on one thing at a time and that is called deep work. These quotes from the Deep Work book will motivate you to do work and make you focus to do deep work.
Here’s the list of Best Quotes from Deep Work Book:
1. “If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
2. “[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
3. “Less mental clutter means more mental resources available for deep thinking.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
4. “If you service low-impact activities, therefore, you’re taking away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It’s a zero-sum game.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
5. “Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it’s instead like a muscle that tires.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
6. “(As Nietzsche said: “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.”)”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
7. “Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging. There”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World8.
8. “Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
9. “The task of a craftsman, they conclude, “is not to generate meaning, but rather to cultivate in himself the skill of discerning the meanings that are already there.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
10. “If you can’t learn, you can’t thrive.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
11. “To simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it’s incredibly valuable.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
12. “what we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
13. “Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
14. “Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
15. “As the author, Tim Ferriss once wrote: “Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don’t, you’ll never find time for the life-changing big things.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
16. “In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
17. “If you service low-impact activities, therefore, you’re taking away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It’s a zero-sum game.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
18. “Like fingers pointing to the moon, other diverse disciplines from anthropology to education, behavioral economics to family counseling, similarly suggest that the skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
19. “To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
20. “Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
21. “To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
22. “Knowledge workers, I’m arguing, are tending toward increasingly visible busyness because they lack a better way to demonstrate their value.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
23. “There is a middle ground, and if you’re interested in developing a deep work habit, you must fight to get there.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
24. “The shallow work that increasingly dominates the time and attention of knowledge workers are less vital than it often seems in the moment.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Wrapping up
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Sourabh Sharma is a hobbyist book reader, Entrepreneur, and a literature student at Delhi University. A blog writer by day and a book reader by night, he is oathed to discuss himself in a third person but can be persuaded to do so from time to time.
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