“When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“From what I’ve seen, the operations of war are constituted less of glorious attacks and valiant defences and more of an ongoing… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Warfare is theatre, I have said, and the essence of theatre is aritifce. What we show, we will not do. What we… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Habit will be your champion. When you train the mind to think one way and one way only, when you refuse to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's… — 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
“This, I realized now watching Dienekes rally and tend to his men, was the role of the officer: to prevent those under… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life. — Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth… — 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
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“My wish for you, Kallistos, is that you survive as many battles in the flesh as you have already fought in your… — 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
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
“War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and… — 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
