Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDCourage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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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 counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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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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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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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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The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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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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Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.
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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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