"Our job in this life is not to……" — Steven Pressfield
"Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it."
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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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