Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDAs all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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The professional will not tolerate disorder… He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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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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The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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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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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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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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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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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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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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