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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.

Steven Pressfield

When we’re living as amateurs, we’re running away from our calling – meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
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Amateur Call Live Meaning Run True Work
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Be Yourself Original Reality
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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Bed Death Family Friendship Goodbye People Seek Support
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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Born Limitation Ourselves Resistance Spirit Worth
Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Government Master
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Resistance Work Yourself
We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Choice Future Life Ourselves
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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Believe Big Children Doubt Heart Hesitation Mad Man Myself Thinking Trouble
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Action Brave Criticism Hate Himself
Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
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Born Defeat Impossible Resistance Success Support Time
It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Believe Lying Ourselves
Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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Crazy Heart Stay Stupidity Yourself
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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Art Day Exception Important Try Work
As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Born Himself Learning Student Teacher
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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Deep Hesitation Man Myself Need Philosophy World
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop

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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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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