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- Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our…
- That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct…
- The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take…
- 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…
- Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant…
- You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study...…
- Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times,…
- Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
- 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…
- A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
- 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…
- The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s…
- 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…
- You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
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