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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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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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The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes.
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Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.
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Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.
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The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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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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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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Resistance is experienced as fear the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
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The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today we put them off till our deathbed.
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
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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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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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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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