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You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.
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The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.
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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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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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When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.
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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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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate it’s indifference.
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