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The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate it’s indifference.
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Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work they're just taking dictation.
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.
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It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
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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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The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
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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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The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.
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Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
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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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