"Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn…" — Steven Pressfield
"Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off."
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187 Quotes by Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield has 187 quotes on this site.
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Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
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The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the…
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The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul,…
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when…
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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to…
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is…
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it,…
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up…
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F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it…
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The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be…
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things,…
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
— Honore de Balzac
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food…
— Mario Batali
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Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
— Scott Adams
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I always wanted to be a hairdresser.
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Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
— Dirk Benedict
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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We made too many wrong mistakes.
— Yogi Berra
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of…
— Halle Berry
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So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
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