Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. Steven Pressfield
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More Quotes By Steven Pressfield
  1. A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

  2. A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

  3. The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

  4. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

  5. 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 next one today.

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