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“This is what ultimately matters: where you end up, not the speed at which you get there, or the number of people you impress with your jittery busyness along the way.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“We've become so used to the idea that the only reward for getting better is moving toward higher income and increased responsibilities that we forget that the fruits of pursuing quality can also be harvested in the form of a more sustainable lifestyle.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“The key to meaningful work is in the decision to keep returning to the efforts you find important. Not in getting everything right every time.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“To work without change or rest all year would have seemed unusual to most of our ancestors. Seasonality was deeply integrated into the human experience.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout