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 PRESSFIELDSlay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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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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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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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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Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.
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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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