We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer 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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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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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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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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When we’re living as amateurs, we’re running away from our calling – meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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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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