"Slay that dragon once, and he will never……" — Steven Pressfield

"Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again."

— 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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Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've… — Jo Brand
Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. — Steven Brust
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon… — Madeleine Albright
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's… — Tori Amos
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot… — Audre Lorde
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and… — A. Whitney Brown
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40… — Don Bluth
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon. — Steven Pressfield

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