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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

Steven Pressfield

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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Day Force Mystery Purpose Start
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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Basic Build Computer Discipline Motivational Strength Technology
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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Action Better Brave Park Place Stand
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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Difference Important Principle Urgent Yourself
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Adversity Battle Face Greatness Ourselves
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Life Oneself Study War
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Action Brave Criticism Hate Himself
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Feed Food Resistance
A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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Animal Home Man Smart
Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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Blood Feeling Ideas Inspirational Love Right Yourself
What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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Happiness Myself Simplicity
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Act Himself Inspirational Professional Wait
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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Aspect Bed Death Habit Live Ourselves
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Resistance Work Yourself
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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Enterprise Fear Feeling Growth Important Ourselves Soul
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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Enemy Resistance Rise Rival

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