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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.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.
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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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The professional does not wait for inspiration he acts in anticipation of it.
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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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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It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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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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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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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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Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.
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Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
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It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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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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Start before you’re ready.
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