The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDIt’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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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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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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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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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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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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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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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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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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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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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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