"A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he……" — Steven Pressfield

"A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this."

— Steven Pressfield

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187 Quotes by Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield has 187 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the…
The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul,…
The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when…
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to…
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is…
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it,…
Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up…
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it…
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be…
The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines… — Karen Armstrong
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. — Saint Augustine
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a… — Marcus Aurelius
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my… — Tyra Banks
The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. — Joey Adams
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. — John Adams
Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it… — Johnny Bench
I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. — Buffalo Bill

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