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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDResistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
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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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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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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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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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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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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