The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
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.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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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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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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
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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 opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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