All Steven Pressfield Quotes
- The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession… Arsenal
- Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to… Action
- The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration. Artist
- The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket. Bucket
- When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own. Authentic
- The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the… Adversity
- What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead. Ahead
- Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. Ago
- Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t… Didn
- The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take… Any
- Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working. Blank
- If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to… Born
- It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even… American
- It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life. Inspirational
- Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready. Begin
- I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of… All
- Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later. All
- When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate… Action
- In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason. Apollonian
- But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought… Clicked
- When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest… Amateurs
- Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness. All
- Figure out what scares you the most and do that first. Figure
- There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard… Down
- It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. Down