Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDWhat finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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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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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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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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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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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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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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A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
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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 counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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