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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.

Steven Pressfield

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 is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Life Oneself Study War
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Be Yourself Original Reality
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Confidence Death Reality Scare Wild
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.
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Attitude Day Game Mindset Night Play Production Professional
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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Cure Destroy Fusion Hurt Planet Symphony Writing Yourself
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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Death Discipline Experience Work
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Feed Food Resistance
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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Believe Big Children Doubt Heart Hesitation Mad Man Myself Thinking Trouble
Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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Blood Feeling Ideas Inspirational Love Right Yourself
The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
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Difference Important Principle Urgent Yourself
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Adversity Battle Face Greatness Ourselves
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
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Destiny Personal Stuck World
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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Argue Courage Separate Virtue Warrior
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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Call Scare Work
Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Heart Hustle Inspirational Motivational Yourself

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