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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.

Steven Pressfield

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to identify with a braver part of yourself or your higher nature. So it's that negative repelling force. It's kind of the dragon that we have to slay every day if we're artists or entrepreneurs.
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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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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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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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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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Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate it’s indifference.
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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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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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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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As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.
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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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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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Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work they're just taking dictation.
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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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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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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
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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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Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
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