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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

Steven Pressfield

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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Destiny Personal Stuck World
Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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Artist Battle Code Day Fear Live Necessary Warrior
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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Artist Believe Effort Inspirational Life Production
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Resistance Work Yourself
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Be Yourself Original Reality
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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Beginning Enemy Preparation Resistance Start Yourself
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Act Himself Inspirational Professional Wait
Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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Crazy Heart Stay Stupidity Yourself
Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Genius Resistance Shadow Sun
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
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Adversity Battle Face Greatness Ourselves
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 most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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Art Day Exception Important Try Work
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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Amateur Glory Hereslf Mystery Occupation Professional Talk Work
The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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Alone Army Legs Man Production Strength Victory Win
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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Reality Resistance Secret Writing

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

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