Real Quotes by Steven Pressfield

11 Real quotes by Steven Pressfield

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Pressfield’s warrior mindset shines in eleven compact quotes about staying real. He blends discipline with raw honesty, offering a quick boost for anyone needing a reality check.

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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

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If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you…

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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength…

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The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces…

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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…

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If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into…

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We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the…

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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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Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has…

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This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our…

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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 professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming…

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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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