Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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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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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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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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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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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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