Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe 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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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 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 professional will not tolerate disorder… He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
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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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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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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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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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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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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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