"Resistance by definition is self-sabotage." — Steven Pressfield
"Resistance by definition is self-sabotage."
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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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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor…
— Chinua Achebe
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I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every…
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I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the…
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
— James A. Baldwin
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
— Alan Bennett
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad…
— Wendell Berry
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the…
— Donald Berwick
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there…
— Annie Besant
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
— Neal Boortz
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