The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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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.
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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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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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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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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