Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDPut your ass where your heart wants to be.
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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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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 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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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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 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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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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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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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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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It’s nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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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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When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
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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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