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

Steven Pressfield

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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
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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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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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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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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.
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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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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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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The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
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