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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

The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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Artist Believe Fear Freedom Professional Warrior Work
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Preparation Research Resistance Work
Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Genius Resistance Shadow Sun
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Act Himself Inspirational Professional Wait
Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
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Born Defeat Impossible Resistance Success Support Time
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
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Destiny Personal Stuck World
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.
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Act Attention Cheating Contribution Creativity Yourself
The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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Challenge Dreams Fear Joy Love Ourselves Passion See Work
Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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Enemy Resistance Rise Rival
Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.
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Attack Brave Defense Man Possession
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
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Believe Big Children Doubt Heart Hesitation Mad Man Myself Thinking Trouble
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Confidence Death Reality Scare Wild
Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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Attitude Inspirational Quit Stubborn Success
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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Call Scare Work
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
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Aspect Bed Death Habit Live Ourselves
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop

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.

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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.

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