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Best Work Quotes by Steven Pressfield
- The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
- 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…
- No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop…
- We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
- 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 most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
- 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…
- The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our…
- Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to…
- The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He…
- Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared…
- Start before you’re ready.
- The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her…
- The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
- The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off…
- Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power…
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
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach