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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Steven Pressfield

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
Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Government Master
As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Born Himself Learning Student Teacher
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.
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Amateur Call Live Meaning Run True Work
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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Basic Build Computer Discipline Motivational Strength Technology
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Be Yourself Original Reality
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Life Oneself Study War
The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
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Enterprise Fear Feeling Growth Important Ourselves Soul
The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
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Art Contribution Himself Professional Recognition Respect Superior
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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Life Live Resistance Stand
It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Believe Lying Ourselves
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
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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Attitude Day Game Mindset Night Play Production Professional
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Act Himself Inspirational Professional Wait
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
Never 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.
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Change Destiny Forget Live Moments Ourselves Power

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

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