Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDI wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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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 critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Put your ass where your heart wants 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 greatest just before the finish line.
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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 counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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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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The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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