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.”
STEVEN PRESSFIELDResistance 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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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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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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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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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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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
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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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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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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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The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
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