The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDResistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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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.
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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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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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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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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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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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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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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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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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