"The amateur tweets. The pro works." — Steven Pressfield

"The amateur tweets. The pro works."

— 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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More Amateur Quotes

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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. — Ben Affleck
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to… — Sam Abell
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer… — Unknown Author
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has… — Brooks Atkinson
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development… — Marshall McLuhan
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who… — Alfred Stieglitz

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