Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.”

“To do it right, it is the most complicated thing I know how to make,” Furrer explains. “And it’s that challenge that drives me. I don’t need a sword. But I have to make them.”

“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy,”