We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“My role-options in life and career, I realized, were not limited to Businessman, Athlete, and Boneheaded Patriot.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life. — Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The Bhagavad-Gita changes this. It takes the Warrior Ethos and elevates it to a loftier and nobler plane—the plane of the individual’s… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Only men who do not mind a hard life, with scanty food, little water and lots of discomfort, men who possess stamina… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“In fact, we are servants of the Mystery. We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The acquisition of a condition lends significance to one's existence. An illness, a cross to bear. Some people go from condition to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Our guns do not strip the foe of life with surgical strokes. They take them in a holocaust.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“At the beginning, the author's writing was like a selfie: a disposable plea for attention that was all about him and his… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existence that which is not yet,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions:… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow!… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“that of dealing death, of loosing another man’s soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“I don't need to read nothing,' said the New Zealander. 'I was there.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
