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Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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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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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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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.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.
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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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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
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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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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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As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.
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It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree-climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, 'Suppertime!'
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