When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
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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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It’s nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
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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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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential… Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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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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