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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
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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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Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.
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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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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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Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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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 warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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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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As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.
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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.
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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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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying Grow! Grow! ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying Evolve! Evolve!
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I am going to write my symphony I'm just going to start tomorrow.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
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I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.
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