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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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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.
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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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Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to identify with a braver part of yourself or your higher nature. So it's that negative repelling force. It's kind of the dragon that we have to slay every day if we're artists or entrepreneurs.
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
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We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own I'm not worthy mind-set.
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Start before you’re ready.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.
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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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Persian envoy our arrows will black out the sun... Dienekes of the Spartans..Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
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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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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 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 part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes.
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Resistance is experienced as fear the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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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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We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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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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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
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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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