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Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art
So if you're paralyzed with fear, it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.
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Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art
When we conceive an enterprise and commit to it in the face of our fears, something wonderful happens.
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
I asked what he was laughing at. "I was just wondering if it was possible to get any more miserable." He chuckled darkly. "I suppose if a river snake crawled up my ass and gave birth to quintuplets…
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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
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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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
The enemy is in you, but it is not you.
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Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Lion's Gate: On the Front
Sharon was a realist. He recognized, as did Ben-Gurion and Dayan, that the Arabs had as legitimate a claim to this land as we did, and that they possessed pride and courage and anger, against which no rejoinder existed except the sword.
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Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through
I thought of you when I read this quote from "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne -"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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Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art
Certainly I wouldn't be writing this book, on this subject, if living with freedom were easy. The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art
The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist.
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Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art
Fundamentalism is the philosophy of the powerless, the conquered, the displaced and the dispossessed. Its spawning ground is the wreckage of political and military defeat, as Hebrew fundamentalism arose during the Babylonian captivity, as white Christian fundamentalism appeared in the American South during Reconstruction, as the notion of the Master Race evolved in Germany following World War I. In such desperate times, the vanquished race would perish without a doctrine that restored hope and pride. Islamic fundamentalism ascends from the same landscape of despair and possesses the same tremendous and potent appeal. What exactly is this despair? It is the despair of freedom. The dislocation and emasculation experienced by the individual cut free from the familiar and comforting structures of the tribe and the clan, the village and the family. It is the state of modern life. The
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel
Nikad nisam u bici,ni igdje drugdje ,ni ja ni itko od ljudi prisutnih ispod hrastova,vidio da Dijaneku popuste uzde samokontrole kojima je tako čvrsto i suzdržano upravljao iz srca.Sada se moglo vidjeti kako priziva sve preostale djeliće volje da se sabere i povrati strogoću Spartanca i časnika.Ispustivši dah,koji u stvari nije bio uzdah nego nešto dublje,poput samrtnog zvižduka koji daimon čini kada bježi kroz grlo,pustio je beživotno Aleksandrovo tijelo i nježno ga položio na grimizni ogrtač koji se ispod njega prostirao po zemlji.Svojom desnom rukom potapšao je ruku mladića koji mu je bio štićenik od prvog dana svoga rođenja. -Zaboravio si na naš lov,Aleksandre.Imali bismo tako veličanstven lov ovdje najesen.
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