"Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of……" — Steven Pressfield
"Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of 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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More Degree Quotes
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right…
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher…
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public…
— Charles Babbage
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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I…
— Michele Bachmann
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't…
— Alain de Botton
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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