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Out Quotes by Steven Pressfield
- Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or…
- The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it…
- When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
- 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…
- Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
- Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who…
- 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…
- The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out…
- Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show…
- It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
- Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
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