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When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.
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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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