The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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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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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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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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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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A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
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Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.
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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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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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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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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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