Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD
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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Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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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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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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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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Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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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 professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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