Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work. Don't do it. If you're doing it, stop.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks… — 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
