It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDWhen 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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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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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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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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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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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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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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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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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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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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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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