Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDFigure out what scares you the most and do that first.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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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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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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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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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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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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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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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.”
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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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
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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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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 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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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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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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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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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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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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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