The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Steven Pressfield

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Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then willpower is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's beside the point. It's simply that I just have to.

Accept hardship as a necessary discipline.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful.

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