Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThere’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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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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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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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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It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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