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Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

Steven Pressfield

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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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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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The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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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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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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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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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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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 last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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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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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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