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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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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave to defend makes them timorous.
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As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.
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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
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