"Research can become Resistance. We want to work,……" — Steven Pressfield

"Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work."

— 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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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