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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Steven Pressfield

Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Adversity Battle Face Greatness Ourselves
When we’re living as amateurs, we’re running away from our calling – meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
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Amateur Call Live Meaning Run True Work
Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Act Brave Fear Inspirational Scare Yourself
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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Exploration Himself Professional Project Water
The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
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Enterprise Fear Feeling Growth Important Ourselves Soul
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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Cure Destroy Fusion Hurt Planet Symphony Writing Yourself
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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Capacity Discover Fear Perseverance Thinking
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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Aspect Bed Death Habit Live Ourselves
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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Life Live Resistance Stand
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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Born Limitation Ourselves Resistance Spirit Worth
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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Art Day Exception Important Try Work
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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Feeling Ourselves Potential Resistance See Touch Work
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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Act Attention Cheating Contribution Creativity Yourself
Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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End Greatness Inspirational Resistance Success
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Preparation Research Resistance Work
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Resistance Work Yourself

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

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