Quote by Steven Pressfield Download Open image ““He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.”” — Steven Pressfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“He makes Himself known to those who, after doing all that their powers will allow, confess that they need help from Him.” — Origen Copy Share Image
“I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow, he told himself. Tomorrow he would face Weep, and his duty, and the nightmares that stalked him. Somehow, he would find the courage… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“He would change my life and behave with selfless cruelty as he prepared to set out on a journey with no hope of return.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“This world is such that it will let one live in whatever way he wants. But his own weakness does not let him do… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“He knows how selfish, how unreasonable, how self-absorbed he is being, and he is miserable but unable to stop himself [...]” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“What is this self inside us, this silent observer, Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us And urge us to futile activity, And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow!… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“that of dealing death, of loosing another man’s soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
