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When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.
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When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level - that's when panic strikes. When we experience panic, it means that we're about to cross a threshold. We're poised on the doorstep of a higher plane.
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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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Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.
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The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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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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The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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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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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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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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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.
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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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
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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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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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