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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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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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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.
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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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 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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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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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To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
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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 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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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