Greatest Battle Quotes by Steven Pressfield

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Steven Pressfield has 187 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
• The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of…
• The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks…
• The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength…
• On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
• The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
• The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel…
• If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not…
• Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work…
• F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I…
• The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for…
• The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

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