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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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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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On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration he acts in anticipation of it.
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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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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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It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
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The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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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 you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.
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The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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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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No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.
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Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
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Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
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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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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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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
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