When we raise our game aesthetically, we elevate it morally and spiritually as well.
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us . . . we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us .
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling — meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves. Addiction becomes a surrogate for our callin...
The truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
Who profits from a king’s fidelity save generations a thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care?
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for?They are trying to take everything...
You are the commanders, your men will look to you and act as you do. Let no officer keep to himself or his brother officers, but circulate daylong among his men. Let them see you and see you unafraid....
You have never tasted freedom, friend, Dienekes spoke, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
You imagined we had entered unknown country, my friend, when we voyaged across the sea to Amazonia. Yet that was nothing beside the frontier I cross each evening with this woman who is my equal. Each...
You may think that you’ve lost your passion, or that you can’t identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true. Fear saps passion. When we conquer our...
You think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.
You're supposed to learn that things that you think are nothing, as weightless as air, are actually powerful substantial forces, as real and as solid as earth.
You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful.
You’re supposed to learn that things that you think are nothing, as weightless as air, are actually powerful substantial forces, as real and as solid as earth. I understood. The eagle was telling me...
Any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these acts will elicit Resistance.
Habits and qualities that the professional possesses that the amateur doesn't: 1. The professional shows up every day 2. The professional stays on the job all day 3. The professional is committed over...
Instill courage not by his words alone but by the calm and professional manner with which he spoke them. War is work, not mystery.
It. If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist? chances are you are.
Performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions.
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