“If you’re paralyzed with fear, it’s a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.”
“So you’re taking a few blows. That’s the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful.”
“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
“There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.”
“A hack [...] is a writer who second-guesses his audience. When the hack sits down to work, he doesn’t ask himself what’s in his own heart. He asks what the market is looking for.”
“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”
All quotes above are from Steven Pressfield’s “The War of Art“. It’s a very well-written piece about working in a creative field, about fulfilling your potential and about getting your work done.
Every creative should read it.
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