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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It’s nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.

Steven Pressfield

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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
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Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
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The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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