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A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Port-of-Spain
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Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work they're just taking dictation.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
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Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to identify with a braver part of yourself or your higher nature. So it's that negative repelling force. It's kind of the dragon that we have to slay every day if we're artists or entrepreneurs.
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No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.
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Start before you’re ready.
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The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.
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Persian envoy our arrows will black out the sun... Dienekes of the Spartans..Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
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What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
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If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.
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In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
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