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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDDon’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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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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 last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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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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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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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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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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