Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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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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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Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.
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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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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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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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
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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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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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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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