Deep Work Quotes

“your world is the outcome of what you pay attention to,”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“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.” This advice comes from Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges, a Dominican friar and professor of moral philosophy, who during the early part of the twentieth century penned a slim but influential volume titled The Intellectual Life.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“To abandon a network tool using this logic, therefore, is not to miss out on its potential small benefits, but is instead to get more out of the activities you already know to yield large benefits.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Our work culture’s shift toward the shallow (whether you think it’s philosophically good or bad) is exposing a massive economic and personal opportunity for the few who recognize the potential of resisting this trend and prioritizing depth”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“we should not be surprised that deep work struggles to compete against the shiny thrum of tweets, likes, tagged photos, walls, posts, and all the other behaviors that we’re now taught are necessary for no other reason than that they exist.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“In more detail, this ritual should ensure that every incomplete task, goal, or project has been reviewed and that for each you have confirmed that either (1) you have a plan you trust for its completion, or (2) it’s captured in a place where it will be revisited when the time is right. The process should be an algorithm: a series of steps you always conduct, one after another. When you’re done, have a set phrase you say that indicates completion (to end my own ritual, I say, “Shutdown complete”).”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Your goal is not to stick to a given schedule at all costs; it’s instead to maintain, at all times, a thoughtful say in what you’re doing with your time going forward—even if these decisions are reworked again and again as the day unfolds.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“If your schedule is disrupted, you should, at the next available moment, take a few minutes to create a revised schedule for the time that remains in the day. You can turn to a new page. You can erase and redraw blocks. Or do as I do: Cross out the blocks for the remainder of the day and create new blocks to the right of the old ones on the page (I draw my blocks skinny so I have room for several revisions).”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“adopt the habit of pausing before action and asking, “What makes the most sense right now?”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“It’s crucial, therefore, that you figure out in advance what you’re going to do with your evenings and weekends before they begin.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“A similar potential for craftsmanship can be found in most skilled jobs in the information economy. Whether you’re a writer, marketer, consultant, or lawyer: Your work is craft, and if you hone your ability and apply it with respect and care, then like the skilled wheelwright you can generate meaning in the daily efforts of your professional life.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“The Enlightenment’s metaphysical embrace of the autonomous individual leads not just to a boring life,” Dreyfus and Kelly worry; “it leads almost inevitably to a nearly unlivable one.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“The Art of Focus,”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“I keep the key with me all the time; no one else is allowed in there except with my permission.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Decades of work from multiple different subfields within psychology all point toward the conclusion that regularly resting your brain improves the quality of your deep work. When you work, work hard. When you’re done, be done.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“a New York Times column on the topic, David Brooks summarizes this reality more bluntly: “[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“As Gallagher summarizes: “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

“attention” to uncover the truth latent in each. In other words, he teaches: To learn requires intense concentration.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“To summarize, to succeed with deep work you must rewire your brain to be comfortable resisting distracting stimuli.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“First, distraction remains a destroyer of depth. Therefore, the hub-and-spoke model provides a crucial template. Separate your pursuit of serendipitous encounters from your efforts to think deeply and build on these inspirations. You should try to optimize each effort separately, as opposed to mixing them together into a sludge that impedes both goals. Second, even when you retreat to a spoke to think deeply, when it’s reasonable to leverage the whiteboard effect, do so. By working side by side with someone on a problem, you can push each other toward deeper levels of depth, and therefore toward the generation of more and more valuable output as compared to working alone.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Gallagher'in veciz bir şekilde özetlediği gibi: Kim olduğunuz, ne düşündüğünüz, ne hissettiğiniz, ne yaptığınız, neyi sevdiğiniz odaklandığınız şeylerin toplamıdır.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“En değerli anlar, genellikle kişinin zor ve mühim bir işi başarmak için harcadığı istemli çaba esnasında bedeninin ve zihninin sınırlarını zorlamasından doğar. Csikszentmihalyi bu zihinsel durumu akış [flow] olarak adlandırdı. Bu bulgu, istirahatin insanı mutlu yaptığı yönündeki genel geçer kabule de aykırıydı aynı zamanda.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Anlamlı içerik üretmek büyük çaba gerektirir ve ancak bu çabanın karşılığında insanların ilgisini kazanırsınız; sosyal medya ise insanlara çaba göstermeden ilgi toplama imkanı sunuyor.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Sizin zamanınız ve dikkatiniz üzerinden kâr elde eden şirketler, ustaca kullandıkları bir pazarlama hilesi sayesinde bugün herkesi şuna inandırmış vaziyetteler: Sosyal medyada yer almadığınızda mutlaka bir şeyleri kaçırır, bir şeylerden mahrum kalırsınız.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“In a post-Enlightenment world we have tasked ourselves to identify what’s meaningful and what’s not, an exercise that can seem arbitrary and induce a creeping nihilism. “The Enlightenment’s metaphysical embrace of the autonomous individual leads not just to a boring life,” Dreyfus and Kelly worry; “it leads almost inevitably to a nearly unlivable one.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Roy Baumeister ve onu takip eden diğer biliminsanlarının çalışmalarının irade hakkında ortaya koyduğu fevkalade mühim gerçek şu: İrade, kullanıldıkça tükenen kısıtlı bir kaynaktır.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“These arguments roughly follow a trajectory from the conceptually narrow to broad: starting with a neurological perspective, moving to the psychological, and ending with the philosophical. I’ll show that regardless of the angle from which you attack the issue of depth and knowledge work, it’s clear that by embracing depth over shallowness you can tap the same veins of meaning that drive craftsmen like Ric Furrer.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Bırakın zihniniz, dikkatin tek bir hedefe yönelmiş ışınları sayesinde merceğe dönüşsün; bırakın ruhunuz, zihninizi bütünüyle ele geçiren, merakınızı cezbeden fikre dört elle sarılsın'
Bu tavsiye, ahlak felsefesi alanında eserler veren Dominiken rahip Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges'in 20. yüzyılın başlarında yazdığı La Vie Intellectuel [Entelektüel Yaşam] adındaki incecik fakat etkileyici 'zihinsel gelişim ve derinleşme' kılavuzundan.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Deep work is important, in other words, not because distraction is evil, but because it enabled Bill Gates to start a billion-dollar industry in less than a semester.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World