Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDPut your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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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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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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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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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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