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“we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are.”
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![Steven Pressfield](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298914893i/867._UY200_CR15,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”
― The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
― The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
![Robert Greene](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298212921i/865._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.”
― The 50th Law
― The 50th Law
“Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done. It doesn’t mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.”
― Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
― Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
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