Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDWe will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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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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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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.
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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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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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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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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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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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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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