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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.

Steven Pressfield

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential… Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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Feeling Ourselves Potential Resistance See Touch Work
A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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Animal Home Man Smart
Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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Blood Feeling Ideas Inspirational Love Right Yourself
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
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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Art Better Division Life Myself War Writing
As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Born Himself Learning Student Teacher
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop
Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Cheating Contribute World Yourself
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
It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Believe Lying Ourselves
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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Capacity Discover Fear Perseverance Thinking
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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Bed Death Family Friendship Goodbye People Seek Support
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Action Brave Criticism Hate Himself
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
We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Choice Future Life Ourselves
Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Act Brave Fear Inspirational Scare Yourself

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