Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDMost of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands 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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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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