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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.

Steven Pressfield

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Be Yourself Original Reality
Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Genius Resistance Shadow Sun
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
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Believe Big Children Doubt Heart Hesitation Mad Man Myself Thinking Trouble
Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.
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Attack Brave Defense Man Possession
We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Choice Future Life Ourselves
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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Attitude Day Game Mindset Night Play Production Professional
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop
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
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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Imagination Job Life Ourselves Philosophy Time
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Action Brave Criticism Hate Himself
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Act Himself Inspirational Professional Wait
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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Born Limitation Ourselves Resistance Spirit Worth
It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Believe Lying Ourselves
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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Artist Believe Effort Inspirational Life Production
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Definition Destruction Myself Resistance
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Feed Food Resistance

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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