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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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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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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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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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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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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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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
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The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
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The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.
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Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
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