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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.
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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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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave to defend makes them timorous.
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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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We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
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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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When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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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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On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.
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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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Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.
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Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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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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The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
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Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.
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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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If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.
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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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