Don’t think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we’ve acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.
Discipline yourself to boil down your story/new business/philanthropic enterprise to a single page.
Dienekes says the mind is like a house with many rooms, he said. There are rooms one must not go into. To anticipate one’s death is one of those rooms. We must not allow ourselves even to think it.
Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over.Not to me. Not to them.
Because a warrior carries helmet and breastplate for his own protection, but his shield for the safety of the whole line.
Be brave, my heart [wrote the poet and mercenary Archilochus]. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag;...
Any support we get from persons of flesh and blood is like 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 fr...
And they knew that when battle came, he would take his place not safely in the rear, but in the front rank, at the hottest and most perilous spot on the field.
All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion. The initial fear is that one has lost something. A cherished self-conception must be given u...
A nation is born in blood and purchases with blood its right to stand in the ranks with other nations.
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
Any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these acts will elicit Resistance.
The Problem Is the Problem A professional does not take success or failure personally. That’s Priority Number One for us now. That our project has crashed is not a reflection of our worth as human bei...
Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure.
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
Rationalization is Resistance's right-hand man. Its job is to keep us from feeling the shame we would feel if we truly faced what cowards we are for not doing our work.
RESISTANCE AND FEAR Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared...
If Resistance couldn't be beaten, there would be no Fifth Symphony, no Romeo and Juliet, no Golden Gate Bridge. Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you reme...