Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
STEVEN PRESSFIELDResistance is greatest just before the finish line.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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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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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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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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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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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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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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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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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 last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It’s nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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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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