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 sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
Start before you're ready.
Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.
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...
His was not, I could see now, the heroism of an Achilles. He was not a superman who waded invulnerably into the slaughter, single-handedly slaying the foe by myriads. He was just a man doing a job. A...
He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.
Crazy,' says Paddy Mayne, 'is our business.
Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses theinitiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defendmakes them timorous.
— 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...
Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop.
If you take Resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get. Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.
A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
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 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...
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
The fundamentalist (or, more accurately, the beleaguered individual who comes to embrace fundamentalism) cannot stand freedom. He cannot find his way into the future, so he retreats to the past. He re...
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...
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.