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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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He who whets his steel, whets his courage
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying Grow! Grow! ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying Evolve! Evolve!
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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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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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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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 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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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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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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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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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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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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Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
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