If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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As 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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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
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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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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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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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’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
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Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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