Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDResearch can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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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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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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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
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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 amateur tweets. The pro works.
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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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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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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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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
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