We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDWhat finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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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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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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A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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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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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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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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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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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe 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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