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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.
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If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist? chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
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When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.
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The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
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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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On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.
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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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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
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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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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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I am going to write my symphony I'm just going to start tomorrow.
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Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit rivers make their way to the sea.
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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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The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.
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A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
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