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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Steven Pressfield

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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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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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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 most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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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 counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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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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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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Ignorance and arrogance are the artist’s and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”
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