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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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What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
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Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work they're just taking dictation.
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Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
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It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
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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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The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
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We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
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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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The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit rivers make their way to the sea.
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
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The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.
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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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