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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
Steven Pressfield
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Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes.
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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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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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