The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“What's the difference between a Spartan king and a mid-ranker? One man will lob this query to his mate as they prepare… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“A thousand years from now" Leonidas declared, "two thousand, three thousand years hence, men a hundred generations yet unborn may, for their… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any… — 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
