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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.

Steven Pressfield

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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
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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. 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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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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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
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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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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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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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