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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

Steven Pressfield

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
Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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Artist Battle Code Day Fear Live Necessary Warrior
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
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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Herself Investment Love Professional Work
It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
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Action Better Brave Park Place Stand
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
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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Life Live Resistance Stand
Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Fantasy Fight Inspirational Win Yourself
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Act Himself Inspirational Professional Wait
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
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Definition Destruction Myself Resistance
Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Genius Resistance Shadow Sun
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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Artist Believe Effort Inspirational Life Production
A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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Animal Home Man Smart
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
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Be Yourself Original Reality

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