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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.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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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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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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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