Here's another test. Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? If
I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.
I was thirty years old before I had an actual thought. Everything up till then was either what Buddhists call monkey-mind chatter or the reflexive regurgitation of whatever my parents or teachers said...
I will gladly shell out $24.95 or $9.99 or 99 cents on iTunes to read or see or listen to the 24-karat treasure that you have refined from your pain and your vision and your imagination. I need it. We...
In short, if the Muse exists, she does not whisper to the untalented.
Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product.
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.
Jewish despair arises from want and can be cured by surfeit. Give a penniless Jew fifty quid and he perks right up. Irish despair is different. Nothing relieves Irish despair. The Irishman’s complaint...
The Spartan right fall upon the defenders of Antirhion, not in frenzied shrieking rage, lip-curled and fang-bared, but predator-like, cold-blooded, applying the steel with the wordless cohesion of the...
Monopoly money; it’s not legal tender in that sphere where we have to do our work. In fact, the more energy we spend stoking up on support from colleagues and loved ones, the weaker we become and the...
Never forget, Alexandros, that this flesh, this body, does not belong to us. Thank God it doesn’t. If I thought this stuff was mine, I could not advance a pace into the face of the enemy. But it is no...
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This
Our team has zero; has he got Close Air Support, drones, anything?
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
Resistance has no conscience.
Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethi...
Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.
Resistance, his all-encompassing term for what Freud called the Death Wish — that destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might d...
There’s no mystery to turning pro. It’s a decision brought about by an act of will. We make up our minds to view ourselves as pros and we do it. Simple as that.
We slew three hundred of them, replied Artemisia, and it took two million of us to do it. These
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