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There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
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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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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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
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