Steven Pressfield - Resistance Quotes

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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 and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

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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 from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

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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 calling that is yours and yours alone. You know it. No one has to tell you. And unless I'm crazy, you're no closer to taking action on it than you were yesterday or will be tomorrow. You think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.

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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

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Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

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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... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

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As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.

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Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

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Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

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Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce.

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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

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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 to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

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To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

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Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

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Resistance's goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.

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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

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No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.

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