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.
It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your...
Start before you're ready.
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its...
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing.We can use this. We can use...
When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.
What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.
The Spartan king Agesilaus was still fighting in armor when he was eighty-two. Picasso was painting past ninety, and Henry Miller was chasing women (I'm sure Picasso was too) at eighty-nine.Once we tu...
Each man recalls not the enemy he hated, but the champion who engaged him with such valor.
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our l...
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 we are of a work or...
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses th...
Instill courage not by his words alone but by the calm and professional manner with which he spoke them. War is work, not mystery.
The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree- climbing tyke both loo...
Indeed, we own a bond, my friend. That most sublime of all: reminiscence for our vanished youth.
— Juro, companheiros, [os persas] eram tão numerosos que ao lançarem os projéteis a massa de flechas bloqueava o sol!Os olhos do boateiro estavam inflamados de prazer. Virou-se para o meu senhor, como...
He who whets his steel, whets his courage.
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