You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

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

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.