Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDAlways attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.
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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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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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 amateur tweets. The pro works.
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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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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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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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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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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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We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
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