Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDResistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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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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The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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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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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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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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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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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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Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
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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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