Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDLong-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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
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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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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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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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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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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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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