When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and notcampaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
Our job in this life 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.
Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.
Reći ću Njegovom Veličanstvu što je kralj.Kralj ne boravi u svome šatoru dok njegovi ljudi krvare i ginu na ratištu.Kralj ne objeduje dok njegovi ljudi gladuju niti spava dok drže stražu na zidu.Kralj...
When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.
This man has conquered the world! What have you done?The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
The enemy is Resistance.
If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.
Start before you're ready.
The marine corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and...
A thousand years from now Leonidas declared, two thousand, three thousand years hence, men a hundred generations yet unborn may, for their private purposes, make journey to our country. They will come...
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'indep...
The Muse honors the working stiff.
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