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A writer writes with his genius an artist paints with hers everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.
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Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
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The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
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The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.
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To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.
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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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
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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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today we put them off till our deathbed.
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A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.
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These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.
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Resistance is experienced as fear the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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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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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave to defend makes them timorous.
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Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration he acts in anticipation of it.
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We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
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