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Into Quotes by Steven Pressfield
- I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
- That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct…
- Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
- I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being…
- 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 professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their…
- Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to…
- A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and…
- 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…
- If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world…
- Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong