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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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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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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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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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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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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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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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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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