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.”
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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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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The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
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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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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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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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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