Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDPut your ass where your heart wants to be.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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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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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 most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
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Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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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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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.
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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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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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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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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.
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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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