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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.

Steven Pressfield

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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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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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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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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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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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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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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 last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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