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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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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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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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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you’ve lost your passion, or that you can’t identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true.
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
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On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.
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We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
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If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.
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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
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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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These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
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The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
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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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As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.
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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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