Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe 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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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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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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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 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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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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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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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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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
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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 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 professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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