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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own I'm not worthy mind-set.
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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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Resistance is experienced as fear the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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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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Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
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Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.
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He who whets his steel, whets his courage
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We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
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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 more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work they're just taking dictation.
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There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find 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.
Steven Pressfield
Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you’ve lost your passion, or that you can’t identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true.
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