The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.” — 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
Right now with blogs and the flood of internet access, a multitude of aspiring writers think they're ready for prime time. They're… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The moment a person learns he's got terminal cancer, a profound shift takes place in his psyche. At one stroke in the… — 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
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their… — 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
“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“In their minds it is the mark of an ill-prepared and amateur army to rely in the moments before battle on what… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“When a man seats before his eyes the bronze face of his helmet and steps off from the line of departure, he… — 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
