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Start before you’re ready.
The amateur tweets. The pro works.
He who whets his steel, whets his courage
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.
As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.
I'm superstitious. I keep mum while I'm working on something.
Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.
Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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.
It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them.
The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.
Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.
The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.