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I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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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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It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
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The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying Grow! Grow! ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying Evolve! Evolve!
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These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.
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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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A writer writes with his genius an artist paints with hers everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
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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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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
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Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration he acts in anticipation of it.
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