Best Steven Pressfield Thoughts
- We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. Applause
- This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates… Accrete
- The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Art
- We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day… Accept
- The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s… Difference
- The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come… Allows
- As all born teachers, he was primarily a student. All
- The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love. Dienekes
- The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our… Challenge
- We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess… Actually Possess
- Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to… Calling
- The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He… Amateur
- Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade. Arrows
- Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew… Anew
- Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. Life
- Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we… Find
- To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. Any
- Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared… Calling
- The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such… Arms
- Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? Activity
- Start before you’re ready. Inspiration
- Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. Action
- The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her… Amateur
- The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her. Doe
- The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he… Compliment
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