The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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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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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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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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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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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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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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential… Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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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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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 will not tolerate disorder… He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
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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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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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To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
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