Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDBe too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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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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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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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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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 most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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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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