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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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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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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Resistance is experienced as fear the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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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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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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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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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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The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.
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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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Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.
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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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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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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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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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We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
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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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F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I'll be back.
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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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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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