A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe 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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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It’s nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
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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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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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There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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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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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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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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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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