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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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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 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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.
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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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No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.
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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you’ve lost your passion, or that you can’t identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true.
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F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I'll be back.
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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
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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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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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