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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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He who whets his steel, whets his courage
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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 to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work they're just taking dictation.
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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.
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If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist? chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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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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The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes.
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We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
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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 Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
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If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.
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Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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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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The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.
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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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