instill courage not by his words alone but by the calm and professional manner with which he spoke them. War is work, not mystery. - Steven Pressfield

RESISTANCE AND PROCRASTINATION Procrastination is the most common manifestation of Resistance because it’s the easiest to rationalize. We don’t tell ourselves, “I’m never going to write my symphony.” Instead we say, “I am going to write my symphony; I’m just going to start tomorrow.

The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren’t sick, they’re self-dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face.