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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDStay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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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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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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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 Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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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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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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The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
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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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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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