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- F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back…
- 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…
- 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…
- When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest…
- Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
- There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard…
- We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We…
- Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they…
- When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
- In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives…
- Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
- Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
- The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted; soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof.…
- Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its…
- The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out…
- We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are... That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity... because, if it's…
- As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we…
- The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never…
- I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life…
- Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being…
- These scars on my body,” Alexander declared, “were got for you, my brothers. Every wound, as you see, is in the front. Let that man…
- We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess…
- The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such…
- Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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