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 professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her. — 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
The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it? — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent?… — 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
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
There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it. — 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
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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
