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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.

Steven Pressfield

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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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 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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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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He who whets his steel, whets his courage
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.
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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.
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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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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
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A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.
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Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work they're just taking dictation.
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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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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
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When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
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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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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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