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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.
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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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The professional does not wait for inspiration he acts in anticipation of 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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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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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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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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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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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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 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 amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.
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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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Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
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I am going to write my symphony I'm just going to start tomorrow.
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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 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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What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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