--- title: "7 Scared Quotes By Steven Pressfield" description: "7 Scared quotes by Steven Pressfield. Plus more from Steven Pressfield and more Scared sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/steven-pressfield-696_calling_the-more-scared-we-are-of-a-work-or-call_230898.jpg" --- > [The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-more-scared-we-are-of-a-work-or-calling-the-more-sure-we-can-be/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/steven-pressfield-696_calling_the-more-scared-we-are-of-a-work-or-call_230898.jpg) > [Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/are-you-paralyzed-with-fear-that-s-a-good-sign-fear-is-good-like-self/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41b/steven-pressfield-696_calling_are-you-paralyzed-with-fear-that-s-a-goo_1257823.jpg) > [The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-counterfeit-innovator-is-wildly-self-confident-the-real-one-is/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b32/steven-pressfield-696_counterfeit_the-counterfeit-innovator-is-wildly-self_1507616.jpg) > [The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-professional-tackles-the-project-that-will-make-him-stretch-he/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c27/steven-pressfield-696_assignments_the-professional-tackles-the-project-tha_1528015.jpg) > [“Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/remember-our-rule-of-thumb-the-more-scared-we-are-of-a-work-or/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c47/steven-pressfield-696_quote_remember-our-rule-of-thumb-the-more-scar_1943439.jpg) > [If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/if-you-find-yourself-asking-yourself-and-your-friends-am-i-really-a/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/steven-pressfield-696_art_if-you-find-yourself-asking-yourself-and_2357624.jpg) > [Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/fear-is-good-like-self-doubt-fear-is-an-indicator-fear-tells-us-what/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa4/steven-pressfield-696_business_fear-is-good-like-self-doubt-fear-is-an_2466450.jpg) ## Other authors on Scared ## More by Steven Pressfield > [Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/most-of-us-have-two-lives-the-life-we-live-and-the-unlived-life/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-artist-and-the-fundamentalist-both-confront-the-same-issue-the/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-professional-arms-himself-with-patience-not-only-to-give-the/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-kabbalah-describes-angels-as-bundles-of-light-meaning/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/there-is-an-enemy-there-is-an-intelligent-active-malign-force-working/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/to-labor-in-the-arts-for-any-reason-other-than-love-is-prostitution/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/that-of-dealing-death-of-loosing-another-man-s-soul-and-sending-it/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/resistance-is-experienced-as-fear-the-degree-of-fear-equates-to-the/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/when-we-sit-down-each-day-and-do-our-work-power-concentrates-around/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/anything-that-draws-attention-to-ourselves-through-pain-free-or/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-gnostics-believed-that-exile-was-the-essential-condition-of-man/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/our-birth-is-but-a-sleep-and-a-forgetting-the-soul-that-rises-with-us/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/you-are-a-writer-when-you-tell-yourself-you-are-no-one-else-s-opinion/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [“Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/resistance-outwits-the-amateur-with-the-oldest-trick-in-the-book-it/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) > [“I don't need to read nothing,' said the New Zealander. 'I was there.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/i-don-t-need-to-read-nothing-said-the-new-zealander-i-was-there/) [Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scared/steven-pressfield/#itemlist", "name": "7 Scared Quotes By Steven Pressfield", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Steven Pressfield" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-more-scared-we-are-of-a-work-or-calling-the-more-sure-we-can-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/steven-pressfield-696_calling_the-more-scared-we-are-of-a-work-or-call_230898.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/steven-pressfield-696_calling_the-more-scared-we-are-of-a-work-or-call_230898.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/steven-pressfield-696_calling_the-more-scared-we-are-of-a-work-or-call_230898.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.” — Steven Pressfield", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Are you paralyzed with fear? 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