Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe 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.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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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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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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We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
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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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The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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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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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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