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The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you’ve lost your passion, or that you can’t identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true.
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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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It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree-climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, 'Suppertime!'
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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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Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit rivers make their way to the sea.
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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.
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Start before you’re ready.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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He who whets his steel, whets his courage
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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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 song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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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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