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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

Steven Pressfield

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Resistance Work Yourself
Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
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Foundation Preparation Resistance Wasted Time
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
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Be Yourself Original Reality
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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Born Defeat Impossible Resistance Success Support Time
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Adversity Battle Face Greatness Ourselves
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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Capacity Discover Fear Perseverance Thinking
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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Challenge Dreams Fear Joy Love Ourselves Passion See Work
It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Believe Lying Ourselves
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Action Brave Criticism Hate Himself
What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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Happiness Myself Simplicity
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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Deep Hesitation Man Myself Need Philosophy World
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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Appearance Clothes Professional Tolerance
As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Born Himself Learning Student Teacher
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist’s and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”
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Arrogant Artist Believe Difficult Enough Entrepreneur Herself Ignorance

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

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