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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe 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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
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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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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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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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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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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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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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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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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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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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There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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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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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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The 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.
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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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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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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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