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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
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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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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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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 song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
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The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.
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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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Start before you’re ready.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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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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The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.
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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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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
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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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It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
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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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