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.”
STEVEN PRESSFIELD
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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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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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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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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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 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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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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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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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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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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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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