Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance? — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance is a repelling force. It’s negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance knows that the more psychic energy we expend dredging and re-dredging the tired, boring injustices of our personal lives, the less… — 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
We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are… — 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 know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to… — 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
“Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any… — 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
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb:… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I… — 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
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