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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.

Steven Pressfield

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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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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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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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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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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 respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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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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