The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDDon’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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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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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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 most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after 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. 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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