“The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“In my view, the amateur does not love the game enough. If he did, he would not pursue it as a sideline,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The amateur has not mastered the technique of his art. Nor does he expose himself to judgment in the real world. If… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The habits and addictions of the amateur are conscious or unconscious self-inflicted wounds. Their payoff is incapacity. When we take our M1903… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs.… — 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
