Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to identify with a braver part of yourself or your higher nature. So it's that negative repelling force. It's kind of the dragon that we have to slay every day if we're artists or entrepreneurs.