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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.

Steven Pressfield

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Genius Resistance Shadow Sun
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 amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Amateur Effort Master One Liner Work
The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
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Art Contribution Himself Professional Recognition Respect Superior
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
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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Feeling Ourselves Potential Resistance See Touch Work
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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Attitude Day Game Mindset Night Play Production Professional
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Preparation Research Resistance Work
We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Choice Future Life Ourselves
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Resistance Work Yourself
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
As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Born Himself Learning Student Teacher
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Be Yourself Original Reality
What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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Happiness Myself Simplicity
Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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Attitude Inspirational Quit Stubborn Success
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

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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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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