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Resistance Quotes by Steven Pressfield
- On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
- 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…
- Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill
- Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
- 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…
- Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t…
- Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
- Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
- 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,…
- 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.
- To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
- Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?
- Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
- We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.
- Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
- Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
- We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
- Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
- Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.
- The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it…
- 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…
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- I'm drawn to the path of least resistance. — Jeff Bridges
- There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas. — Abdallah II
- You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull
- Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. — Samuel Butler
- When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness. — James Allen
- Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who… — Noam Chomsky
- At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no… — Maya Angelou