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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Steven Pressfield

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Government Master
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
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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Imagination Job Life Ourselves Philosophy Time
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Adversity Battle Face Greatness Ourselves
Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Fantasy Fight Inspirational Win Yourself
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Life Oneself Study War
It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
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Action Better Brave Park Place Stand
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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Beginning Enemy Preparation Resistance Start Yourself
The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. Is he scared? Hell, yes. He’s petrified.
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Exploration Himself Professional Project Water
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 amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Amateur Effort Master One Liner Work
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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Capacity Discover Fear Perseverance Thinking
Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Cheating Contribute World Yourself
A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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Animal Home Man Smart
Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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Crazy Heart Stay Stupidity Yourself

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

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