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Come Quotes by Steven Pressfield
- Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it…
- 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…
- Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
- We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We…
- The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
- When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
- When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.
- 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…
- 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…
More Come Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard