Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDOur 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.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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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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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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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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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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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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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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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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