Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.