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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

Steven Pressfield

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
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Difference Important Principle Urgent Yourself
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Adversity Battle Face Greatness Ourselves
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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Call Scare Work
A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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Animal Home Man Smart
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
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Destiny Personal Stuck World
The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. Is he scared? Hell, yes. He’s petrified.
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Exploration Himself Professional Project Water
Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Cheating Contribute World Yourself
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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Action Better Brave Park Place Stand
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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Capacity Discover Fear Perseverance Thinking
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
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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Cure Destroy Fusion Hurt Planet Symphony Writing Yourself
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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Born Limitation Ourselves Resistance Spirit Worth
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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Deep Hesitation Man Myself Need Philosophy World
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist’s and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”
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Arrogant Artist Believe Difficult Enough Entrepreneur Herself Ignorance
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Act Himself Inspirational Professional Wait

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

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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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