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Book: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.
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  4. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure.
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  5. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    Making yourself a corporation {or just thinking of yourself in that way} reinforces the idea of professionalism because it separates the artist-doing-the-work from the will-and-consciousness-running-the-show.
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  6. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    Faced with our imminent extinction, Tom Laughlin believes, all assumptions are called into question.
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  7. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.
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  8. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.
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  9. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.
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  10. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops, and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.
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  11. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. He knows that any job, whether it's a novel or a kitchen remodel, takes twice as long as he thinks and costs twice as much. He accepts that. He recognizes it as reality. The professional steels himself at the start of a project, reminding himself it is the Iditarod, not the sixty-yard dash. He conserves his energy. He prepares his mind for the long haul. He sustains himself with the knowledge that if he can just keep those huskies mushing, sooner or later the sled will pull in to Nome.
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  12. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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