The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it. He
The professional cannot allow the actions of others to define his reality.
The hardest thing in the world is to be ourselves.
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.
The amateur allows his worth and identity to be defined by others. The amateur craves third-party validation. The amateur is tyrannized by his imagined conception of what is expected of him. He is imp...
That fearsome emotion that animates the female in all-female groups (called outere in Amazon and gynekophoitos in Greek)
Some heavy shit is coming down, brothers, and we’re going to go through it.
Sjećaš li se,Dijaneče,kad smo se borili s Tebancima kod Eritreje?Kad su se slomili i pobjegli?Bio je to prvi bijeg kojem sam svjedočio.Zaprepastio me je.Postoji li primitivniji i više ponižavajući pri...
Resistance has no strength of its own. Every ounce of juice it possesses comes from us. We feed it with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
Our very existence makes them abominate us, for it calls their own wives and daughters to aspire to freedom.
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.
Our greatest fear is fear of success.
Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one...
Many artists are addicts, and vice versa. Many are artists in one breath and addicts in another. What's the difference? The addict is the amateur; the artist is the professional.
Let us be, then, warriors of the heart, and enlist in our inner cause the virtues we have acquired through blood and sweat in the sphere of conflict—courage, patience, selflessness, loyalty, fidelity,...
In my view, the amateur does not love the game enough. If he did, he would not pursue it as a sideline, distinct from his real vocation.
I hold Olympic records for procrastination. I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem.
Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?
Do it or don't do it.