Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDDefeating 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 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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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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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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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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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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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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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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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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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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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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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