Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDA 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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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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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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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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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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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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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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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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 more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
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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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