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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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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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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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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
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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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A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is 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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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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The professional will not tolerate disorder… He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
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