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We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree-climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, 'Suppertime!'
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The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today we put them off till our deathbed.
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The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
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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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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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The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically war stories.
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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
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Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
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Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.
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When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.
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Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.
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Resistance is experienced as fear the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level - that's when panic strikes. When we experience panic, it means that we're about to cross a threshold. We're poised on the doorstep of a higher plane.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.
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A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.
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