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- Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or…
- But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought…
- We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
- It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours…
- 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,…
- The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
- Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who…
- Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?
- Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show…
- It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
- Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the…
- We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day…
- 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…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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