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Work Quotes by Steven Pressfield
- The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.
- The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body…
- The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
- 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…
- 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 will NEVER back…
- Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.
- When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest…
- Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant…
- Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
- Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it…
- Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
- Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
- When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
- Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
- Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that…
- 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…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle