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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

Steven Pressfield

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Government Master
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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Amateur Glory Hereslf Mystery Occupation Professional Talk Work
When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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Day Force Mystery Purpose Start
The professional will not tolerate disorder… He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
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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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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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Herself Investment Love Professional Work
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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Art Day Exception Important Try Work
Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Act Brave Fear Inspirational Scare Yourself
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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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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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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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

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