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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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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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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.
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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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
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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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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.
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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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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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Start before you’re ready.
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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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He who whets his steel, whets his courage
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We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
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The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
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The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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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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