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We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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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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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 professional does not wait for inspiration he acts in anticipation of it.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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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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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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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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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We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own I'm not worthy mind-set.
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A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
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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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I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.
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Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
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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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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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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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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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