Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThere’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.
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When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
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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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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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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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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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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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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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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential… Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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