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.
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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Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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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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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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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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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.”
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A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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