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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDDo you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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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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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
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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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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It’s nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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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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Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
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