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DO YOU: · dream about writing the Great American Novel? · regret not finishing your paintings, poems, or screenplays? · want to start a business or charity? · wish you could start dieting or exercising today? · hope to run a marathon someday? If "yes," then you... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it”
  • “Eternity is in love with the creations of time”
  • “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”

First Sentence

The following is a list, in no particular order, of those activities that most commonly elicit Resistance: 1) The pursuit of any calling in writing, painting, music, film, dance, or any creative art, however marginal or unconventional.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Steven Pressfield (Author)
 

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