Believe Quotes by Steven Pressfield

11 Believe quotes by Steven Pressfield

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Pressfield’s eleven brief reflections on belief give a compact sense of his relentless push for creative and heroic action.

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It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

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Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her…

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The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who…

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We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify…

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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel…

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A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our…

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Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me…

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The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never…

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Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to…

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I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled…

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The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to…

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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

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“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am…

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The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming…

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There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is…

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To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

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“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…

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“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific…

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When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.

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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

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The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with…

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“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…

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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.

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“Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into…

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“I don't need to read nothing,' said the New Zealander. 'I was there.”

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