It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.
Steven PressfieldGo tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
Steven PressfieldOur 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.
Steven PressfieldThe more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
Steven Pressfield