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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| baef82c | In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner. | Cal Newport | ||
| 9f19257 | Deep work is at a severe disadvantage in a technopoly because it builds on values like quality, craftsmanship, and mastery that are decidedly old-fashioned and nontechnological. Even worse, to support deep work often requires the rejection of much of what is new and high-tech. | Cal Newport | ||
| 83378de | 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. This | Cal Newport | ||
| 702a532 | monastic philosophy of deep work scheduling. This philosophy attempts to maximize deep efforts by eliminating or radically minimizing shallow obligations. | Cal Newport | ||
| 2581dfb | The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy," explains Matthew Crawford." | Cal Newport | ||
| 68f4ca2 | Returning to my own example, it's a similar commitment that enables me to succeed with fixed scheduling. I, too, am incredibly cautious about my use of the most dangerous word in one's productivity vocabulary: "yes." It takes a lot to convince me to agree to something that yields shallow work. If you ask for my involvement in university business that's not absolutely necessary, I might respond with a defense I learned from the department ch.. | Cal Newport | ||
| 016f1a2 | A clean break is best. In | Cal Newport | ||
| 7174f7d | Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed. Let's | Cal Newport | ||
| fbd2b16 | You're either remarkable or invisible," says Seth Godin in his 2002 bestseller, Purple Cow." | Cal Newport | ||
| 52df6ea | When an entire cohort unintentionally eliminated time alone with their thoughts from their lives, their mental health suffered dramatically. On reflection, this makes sense. These teenagers have lost the ability to process and make sense of their emotions, or to reflect on who they are and what really matters, or to build strong relationships, or even to just allow their brains time to power down their critical social circuits, which are no.. | Cal Newport | ||
| 5f1b056 | She fingered the card and looked at the younger man. "James Edward, did you offer the man a cool drink?" James Edward said, "You want a Scrapple?" | Robert Crais | ||
| ba5d724 | Pete was relaxed around them, so Maggie tolerated them, but only when Pete was near. | Robert Crais | ||
| 51bc53b | That's the way adults often talk to children. You know they're not going to listen, but you want to tell them anyway just so you know that you have. | Robert Crais | ||
| c91d518 | I'm a big brown mouse, I go marching through the house, and I'm not afraid of anything! I | Robert Crais | ||
| 48ac1f0 | I looked like an ad for Banana Republic. Maybe Banana Republic would give me a job. They could put my picture in their little catalog and under it they could say: Elvis Cole, famous detective, outfitted for his latest adventure in rugged inner-city climes! | Robert Crais | ||
| a84bbad | Kerri turned each page slowly, lifting the next page and scanning the pictures | Robert Crais | ||
| 9834389 | People often die from love, and this is a secret we all keep, even from ourselves. | Robert Crais | ||
| 28768db | Patrol dogs and Military Working Dogs were trained to protect their handlers. If the handler was attacked, and unconscious, or fighting for his or her life, the dog had to know what to do without being told. As Leland said, "These animals aren't robots, goddamnit! They think! You train her up right, this beautiful dog will watch your back better than a squad of goddamned Marines!" -- | Robert Crais | ||
| 4faed83 | and you would never know they were gone, but losing a child left an emptiness so large it screamed to be filled with memories. | Robert Crais | ||
| bc65fa0 | depressed, as if this wasn't a place where someone lived, but more a place where someone died. I went to the sleeping bag and squatted. A photograph had been pushpinned to the wall. It was an older picture and showed Riggens with a plain woman about his age and three kids. | Robert Crais | ||
| c3b36b3 | Officer Pike took off his dark glasses, and looked at her. She felt her breath catch. His eyes were the most liquid blue, the blue of the sky over the high deserts of Sonora, the blue of the ocean where it has no bottom and is infinitely clean. But it wasn't the blue that stopped her breath. For just a moment when the glasses were first pulled away, she could have sworn that those eyes were filled with the most terrible and long-endured pai.. | Robert Crais | ||
| 6bc3f54 | The Malinois breed bit so hard and well, and showed such bite commitment, they were jokingly called Maligators. | Robert Crais | ||
| 24fea04 | Hustling an insurance company was like playing poker with Satan--his house, his rules. | Steve Cavanagh | ||
| 888fb0a | What the maps did not show was that Japanese farmers and workers had usually been there for decades, even generations, before the bases and other facilities were built. | Richard Reeves | ||
| 9d69cb3 | San Francisco Chronicle went the other way for three days, editorializing: "It is not necessary to imitate Hitler by herding whole populations, the guilty and the innocent together into even humane concentration camps." | Richard Reeves | ||
| d042c4a |
Substituirile risipisera oare senzatia absentei trupului, despre care vorbea la inceput? Catusi de putin. Ea continua sa simta, din cauza persistentei pierderii proprioceptiunii, ca trupul ei e mort, nereal, ca nu este al ei - nu poate pune stapanire pe propriul ei trup. Nu stie cum sa descrie aceasta stare, gaseste doar analogii derivate din alte simturi: < |
Oliver Sacks | ||
| 9a4e56f | Edelman, who once planned to be a concert violinist, uses musical metaphors as well. In a BBC radio interview, he said: Think: if you had a hundred thousand wires randomly connecting four string quartet players and that, even though they weren't speaking words, signals were going back and forth in all kinds of hidden ways [as you usually get them by the subtle nonverbal interactions between the players] that make the whole set of sounds a u.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b3ef9c9 | I am very bad at factual exams, yes-or-no questions, but can spread my wings with essays. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 9542bb5 | Music can also evoke worlds very different from the personal, remembered worlds of events, people, places we have known. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| f3b37a3 | I have no words for that feeling, nor had I ever had it before, which comes from the knowledge that one is far away from all humanity, alone in a thousand square miles. We rode in silence, for speech would have been absurd. It seemed the very summit of the world. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 5cd42ce | These then are tales of metamorphosis, brought about by neurological chance, but metamorphosis into alternative states of being, other forms of life, no less human for being so different. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c7e6dc2 | In 1966, after arriving in New York, I read two of Luria's books, Higher Cortical Functions in Man and Human Brain and Psychological Processes. The latter, which contained very full case histories of patients with frontal lobe damage, filled me with admiration [4]. [Footnote 4]. And fear, for as I read it, I thought, what place is there for me in the world? Luria has already seen, said, written, and thought anything I can ever say, or write.. | impostor-syndrome neuropsychology science | Oliver Sacks | |
| b28a22a | n l`yd@ w lmkhtbr w jnH lmstshf~ mSmWm@ jmy`an lkbH w trkyz lslwk , n lm ykn lqSy'h klyan .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 0becd6b | He has achieved what Nietzsche liked to call 'The Great Health'--rare humour, valour, and resilience of spirit: despite being, or because he is, afflicted with Tourette's. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 81a5732 | from such abysses, from such severe sickness, one returns newborn, having shed one's skin ... with merrier senses, with a second dangerous innocence in joy, more childlike and yet a hundred times subtler than one has ever been before. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c5e2a64 | ymkn lTfl 'n ytb` lktb lmqds qbl 'n ytb` qylds, lys l'n lktb lmqds 'bsT (ymkn qwl l`ks) bl l'nh mTrwH b'slwb rmzy w qSSy | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 6d228ff | For 'wellness', naturally is no cause of complaint--people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill--not well. Unless, as George Eliot does, they have some intimation of 'wrongness' or danger, either through knowledge or association, or the very excess of excess. Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.. | wellness | Oliver Sacks | |
| 8e42c72 | Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being. | philosophy science | Oliver Sacks | |
| 75d8307 | This sense of the brain's remarkable plasticity, its capacity for the most striking adaptations, not least in the special (and often desperate) circumstances of neural or sensory mishap, has come to dominate my own perception of my patients and their lives. So much so, indeed, that I am sometimes moved to wonder whether it may not be necessary to redefine the very concepts of "health" and "disease," to see these in terms of the ability of t.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 3ebc933 | a 'musical epilepsy' or a 'personal epilepsy' would seem a contradiction in terms. And yet such epilepsies do occur, though solely in the context of temporal lobe seizures, epilepsies of the reminiscent part of the brain. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| f63e44f | What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here--that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless released, awakened, by an intoxication or disease! Precisely | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 5f383a4 | And I myself was wrung with emotion -- it was heartbreaking, it was absurd, it was deeply perplexing, to think of his life lost in limbo, dissolving. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 2ad4413 | The periodic table was incredibly beautiful, the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I could never adequately analyze what I meant here by beauty - simplicity? coherence? rhythm? inevitability? Or perhaps it was the symmetry, the comprehensiveness of every element firmly locked into its place, with no gaps, no exceptions, everything implying everything else. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 349966a | PERIODIC MOOD-CHANGES We have already spoken of the affective concomitants of common migraines--elated and irritable prodromal states, states of dread and depression associated with the main phase of the attack, and states of euphoric rebound. Any or all of these may be abstracted as isolated periodic symptoms of relatively short duration--some hours, or at most two or three days, and as such may present themselves as primary emotional diso.. | Oliver Sacks |