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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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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 amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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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 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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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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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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