The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDIgnorance 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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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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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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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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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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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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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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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face 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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