The amateur tweets. The pro works.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDStay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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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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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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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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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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The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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The professional will not tolerate disorder… He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
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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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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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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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