Quotes About Challenge

go to sleep content, but my final thought is of Resistance. I will wake up with it tomorrow. Already I am steeling myself.

We can never eliminate Resistance. It will never go away. But we can outsmart it, and we can enlist allies that are as powerful as it is.

Rest in peace, motherfucker.

Remember, our enemy is not lack of preparation; it's not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account.

Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our 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.

Fuck the marshmallows.

it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

Resistance never sleeps. It never slackens and it never goes away. The dragon must be slain anew every morning. However, as with anything in life, if you've succeeded in the past, at least you know that you can succeed.

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.

We can never eliminate Resistance. It will never go away. But we can outsmart it, and we can enlist allies that are as powerful as it is. One thing we can never, never permit ourselves to do is to take Resistance lightly, to underestimate it or to fail to take it into account.

Only men who do not mind a hard life, with scanty food, little water and lots of discomfort, men who possess stamina and initiative, need apply.

Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him.

Every morning you wake up and the dragon's there and you'd have to slay that dragon anew every morning. The only difference is that after you've done it enough times you, you now are confident that it can be done, but it never goes away, And there's no magic bullet.

Juro, companheiros, [os persas] eram tão numerosos que ao lançarem os projéteis a massa de flechas bloqueava o sol! Os olhos do boateiro estavam inflamados de prazer. Virou-se para o meu senhor, como se para saborear a chama de pavor que sua narrativa inflamara até mesmo em um espartano. Para sua decepção, Dienekes olhava-o com um desprendimento indiferente, quase entediado. — Ótimo — disse ele. — Combateremos à sombra.

Resistance knows we're about to beat it and it hits the panic button. It hits with everything it's got.

evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

In myth and legend, when the hero commits to an intention by taking bold action, he enacts a Cosmic Overthrow. He "crosses the threshold.

They peck a man's asshole out

the hero moves from the Ordinary World to the Extraordinary World. She has gone from the Known to the Unknown. Suddenly our hero sees herself differently. She can't help it.

Resistance hates two qualities above all others: concentration and depth. Why? Because when we work with focus and we work deep, we succeed

The ordeal of command consists in this: that one makes decisions of fatal consequence based on ludicrously inadequate intelligence.

BOOK TWO COMBATING RESISTANCE

The professional gives an ear to criticism, seeking to learn and grow. But she never forgets that Resistance is using criticism against her on a far more diabolical level.

faces at a dead run. Yet never have my heart and