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A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.
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Right now with blogs and the flood of internet access, a multitude of aspiring writers think they're ready for prime time. They're not. Be great. Read. Write. Bust your ass. Learn and find your voice. As hard as you think it is, it's a hundred times harder.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.
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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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If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.
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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
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I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.
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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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We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
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Start before you’re ready.
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The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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