Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one 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.

Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.