There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.
What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead. I was developing symptoms. As soon as I sat down and began, I was okay.
Warrior cultures (and warrior leaders) enlist shame, not only as a counter to fear but as a goad to honor. The warrior advancing into battle (or simply resolving to keep up the fight) is more afraid o...
Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonal Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren't diseases, they're marketing ploys. Doctors didn't discover them, copywriters did. Marketing departments did....
Persian envoy our arrows will black out the sun... Dienekes of the Spartans..Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
— 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...
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
Now it’s 1967. Nasser and the Arabs are saying to themselves: The Jews have beaten us in Round One and Round Two, but we will wipe them out for good in Round Three.
Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.
He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.
We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept re...
I thought of you when I read this quote from The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne -Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resis...
Instill courage not by his words alone but by the calm and professional manner with which he spoke them. War is work, not mystery.
This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves....
The Bhagavad-Gita tells us we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor. All the warrior can give is his life; all the athlete can do is leave everything on the field.
So if you're paralyzed with fear, it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.
Warfare is theatre, I have said, and the essence of theatre is aritifce. What we show, we will not do. What we don't show, we will do.
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.
The children who were able to sit for three minutes with a marshmallow on the table in front of them without eating it were rewarded with two marshmallows when the experimenter returned. But that's as...
If you take Resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get. Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.
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