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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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He who whets his steel, whets his courage
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The enemy is a very good teacher. - the Dalai Lama
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preparation, order, patience, endurance, acting in the face of fear and failure
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There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
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Resistance is a repelling force. It's negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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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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Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
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The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.
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He looks upon sky and steppe and sees that which God has created. I look and see God Himself.
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What factors make you decide to take a particular role?" The actor always answers: "Because I'm afraid of it.
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Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.
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Alexander operated by the same principle. Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.
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The hill is a sonofabitch but what can you do? Set one foot in front of another and keep climbing.
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THE ARTIST'S LIFE Are you a born writer?
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Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.
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Bhagavad-Gita tells us we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor.
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
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I would rather have an army of deer commanded by a lion than an army of lions commanded by a deer!" Here
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I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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The song we're composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles BY STEVEN PRESSFIELD Pressfield's
— Daniel H. Pink
It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
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Tolstoy had 13 kids and still wrote War & Peace.
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How else account this usage, that enemies of yore may, by the passage of years alone, become friends?
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A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
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Crazy,' says Paddy Mayne, 'is our business.
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Get your idea down on paper. You can always tweak it later.
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The Muse honors the working stiff.
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Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
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Do it or don't do it.
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The sure sign of an amateur is he has a million plans and they all start tomorrow.
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Next morning I went over to Paul's for coffee and told him I had finished. "Good for you," he said without looking up. "Start the next one today.
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I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.
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Who profits from a king's fidelity save generations a thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care?
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The concept in all these environments seems to be that one needs to complete his healing before he is ready to do his work.
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Egyptians cannot believe Israelis are all
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Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over."
"Not to me. Not to them. — Steven Pressfield
"Not to me. Not to them. — Steven Pressfield
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
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A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.
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The Band advances to the cadence of the flute, and has no call for retreat. Its code is Stand and Die.
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A writer is a writer when he says he is.
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The pain of being human is that we're all angels imprisoned in vessels of flesh.
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You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind.
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Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.
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The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.
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The hardest thing in the world is to be ourselves.
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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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I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.
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The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.
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So she concentrates on technique. The professional masters how, and leaves what and why to the gods.
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Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.
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Stay primitive. Trust the soup. Swing for the seats.
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In short, if the Muse exists, she does not whisper to the untalented.
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Technically, the professional takes money. Technically, the pro plays for pay. But in the end, he does it for love.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Because a warrior carries helmet and breastplate for his own protection, but his shield for the safety of the whole line.
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it. If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are.
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are never happier than when learning something new.
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Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.
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When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars. — Steven Pressfield
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars. — Steven Pressfield
Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work. Don't do it. If you're doing it, stop.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
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We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.
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Our job, as souls on this mortal journey, is to shift the seat of our identity from the lower realm to the upper, from the ego to the Self. Art
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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Gobartes the son of Artabazos
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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The word amateur comes from the Latin root meaning "to love.
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Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.
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Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.
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Last of terror's stages, Selene had tutored Europa and me, is busyness.
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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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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. If
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That was when I realized I had become a pro. I had not yet had a success. But I had had a real failure.
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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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The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
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Discipline yourself to boil down your story/new business/philanthropic enterprise to a single page.
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The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul,
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When inspiration touches talent, she gives birth to truth and beauty.
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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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Fear conquers fear. This is how we Spartans do it, counterpoising to fear of death a greater fear: that of dishonor. Of exclusion from the pack.
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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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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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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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BOOK TWO COMBATING RESISTANCE
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Good. Then we will fight in the shade
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The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.
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The problem with friends and family is that they know us as we are. They are invested in maintaining us as we are.
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