The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them. — 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
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them. — 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