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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.

Steven Pressfield

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port-of-Spain
Experience
Facing
Art
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Soul
Enterprise
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Resistance
Love
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Fear

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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
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I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.
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Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.
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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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These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave to defend makes them timorous.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
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It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
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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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Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
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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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