Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
STEVEN PRESSFIELDLong-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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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential… Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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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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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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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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When we’re living as amateurs, we’re running away from our calling – meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
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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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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
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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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