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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.

Steven Pressfield

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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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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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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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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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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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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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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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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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