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On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port-of-Spain
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Artist
Redefining
Journey

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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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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 is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
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He who whets his steel, whets his courage
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It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
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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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Resistance is experienced as fear the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.
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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.
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As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.
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Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
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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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Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
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The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.
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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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A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
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There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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