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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.
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Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
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There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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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.
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We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.
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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work they're just taking dictation.
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The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically war stories.
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The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.
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Right now with blogs and the flood of internet access, a multitude of aspiring writers think they're ready for prime time. They're not. Be great. Read. Write. Bust your ass. Learn and find your voice. As hard as you think it is, it's a hundred times harder.
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The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
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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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The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
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A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
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