We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are... That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity...… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention,… — 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
