Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. — 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
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs.… — 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
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
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist… — 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
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's… — 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
It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in… — 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
