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4. “I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.”
Douglas Adams
Art, Craft, Writing, Professionalism, Skill
14. “The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.” Edgar Allan Poe Skill, Intellect, Games, Philosophical Comparison, Social Insight, Strategic Thinking
20. “I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.” Robert Greene Results Focus, Success Mindset, Strategic Approach, Ambition, Skill, Purpose
26. “Getting to the cutting edge of a field can be understood in these terms: This process builds up rare and valuable skills and therefore builds up your store of career capital. Similarly, identifying a compelling mission once you get to the cutting edge can be seen as investing your career capital to acquire a desirable trait in your career. In other words, mission is yet another example of career capital theory in action. If you want a mission, you need to first acquire capital.” Cal Newport Career Capital, Mission Investment, Skill Building, Career, Capital, Skill
27. “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 Work Craft, Skill Honing, Professional Meaning, Craft, Skill, Meaning
28. “The Deep Work Hypothesis: The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.” Cal Newport Deep Work, Economic Skill, Core Focus, Skill, Work, Focus
29. “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 Economic Success, Intelligent Machines, Creative Work, Economy, Skill, Capital
Skill Quotes by Famous Authors
4. “I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.”
Douglas Adams Art, Craft, Writing, Professionalism, Skill
14. “The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”
Edgar Allan Poe Skill, Intellect, Games, Philosophical Comparison, Social Insight, Strategic Thinking
20. “I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.”
Robert Greene Results Focus, Success Mindset, Strategic Approach, Ambition, Skill, Purpose
26. “Getting to the cutting edge of a field can be understood in these terms: This process builds up rare and valuable skills and therefore builds up your store of career capital. Similarly, identifying a compelling mission once you get to the cutting edge can be seen as investing your career capital to acquire a desirable trait in your career. In other words, mission is yet another example of career capital theory in action. If you want a mission, you need to first acquire capital.”
Cal Newport Career Capital, Mission Investment, Skill Building, Career, Capital, Skill
27. “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 Work Craft, Skill Honing, Professional Meaning, Craft, Skill, Meaning
28. “The Deep Work Hypothesis: The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.”
Cal Newport Deep Work, Economic Skill, Core Focus, Skill, Work, Focus
29. “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 Economic Success, Intelligent Machines, Creative Work, Economy, Skill, Capital
