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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThose who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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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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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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 artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
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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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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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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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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
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The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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