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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.

Steven Pressfield

It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Believe Lying Ourselves
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Confidence Death Reality Scare Wild
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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Argue Courage Separate Virtue Warrior
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Act Himself Inspirational Professional Wait
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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Bed Death Family Friendship Goodbye People Seek Support
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
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
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Feed Food Resistance
A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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Animal Home Man Smart
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
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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Difference Important Principle Urgent Yourself
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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Artist Believe Effort Inspirational Life Production
Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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Crazy Heart Stay Stupidity Yourself
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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Call Scare Work
The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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Herself Investment Love Professional Work
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

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