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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.

Steven Pressfield

Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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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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Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
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Change Destiny Forget Live Moments Ourselves Power
A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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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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The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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Happiness Myself Simplicity
Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Cheating Contribute World Yourself
Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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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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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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There’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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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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