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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

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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Action Better Brave Park Place Stand
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
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Aspect Bed Death Habit Live Ourselves
Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It’s nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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Bed Death Family Friendship Goodbye People Seek Support
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
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
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Amateur Glory Hereslf Mystery Occupation Professional Talk Work
There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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Reality Resistance Secret Writing
Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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End Greatness Inspirational Resistance Success
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist’s and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”
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Arrogant Artist Believe Difficult Enough Entrepreneur Herself Ignorance
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential… Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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Feeling Ourselves Potential Resistance See Touch Work
Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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Enemy Resistance Rise Rival
As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Born Himself Learning Student Teacher
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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Argue Courage Separate Virtue Warrior
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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Call Scare Work
When we’re living as amateurs, we’re running away from our calling – meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
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Amateur Call Live Meaning Run True Work
The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. Is he scared? Hell, yes. He’s petrified.
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Exploration Himself Professional Project Water
Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Government Master

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