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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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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
Author
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Port-of-Spain
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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Start before you’re ready.
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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 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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.
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Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.
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No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.
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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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Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration he acts in anticipation of it.
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You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
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