"Do we have to stare death in the……" — Steven Pressfield
"Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?"
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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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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will…
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I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
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We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
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The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this…
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Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they…
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according…
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