Feels Quotes by Steven Pressfield

11 Feels quotes by Steven Pressfield

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Pressfield’s eleven brief thoughts cut straight to the core of how feeling fuels the creative fight. They’re a concise, gritty look at the inner drive behind artistic perseverance.

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Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing…

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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

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To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

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The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us…

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Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too.…

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Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of…

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Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see,…

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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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Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for…

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Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb:…

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Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it…

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

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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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