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Steven Pressfield

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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Call Scare Work
As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Born Himself Learning Student Teacher
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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Art Better Division Life Myself War Writing
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Action Brave Criticism Hate Himself
A 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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Believe Big Children Doubt Heart Hesitation Mad Man Myself Thinking Trouble
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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Alone Army Legs Man Production Strength Victory Win
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist’s and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”
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Arrogant Artist Believe Difficult Enough Entrepreneur Herself Ignorance
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Confidence Death Reality Scare Wild
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Preparation Research Resistance Work
The professional will not tolerate disorder… He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
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Appearance Clothes Professional Tolerance
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Be Yourself Original Reality
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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Basic Build Computer Discipline Motivational Strength Technology
We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Choice Future Life Ourselves
The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. Is he scared? Hell, yes. He’s petrified.
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Exploration Himself Professional Project Water
Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
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Born Defeat Impossible Resistance Success Support Time
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Life Oneself Study War

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