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
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some… — 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
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more… — 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
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
