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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDNever forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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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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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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