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If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist? chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.
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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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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
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Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
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A writer writes with his genius an artist paints with hers everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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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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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave to defend makes them timorous.
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Start before you’re ready.
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The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
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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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