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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.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
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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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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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Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
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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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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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