"The professional arms himself with patience, not only……" — Steven Pressfield
"The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work."
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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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When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one…
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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know…
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It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building…
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Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.
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It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those…
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As we strive to align our attitudes and actions with righteousness, then the Holy Ghost becomes for us today what…
— David A. Bednar
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What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If…
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When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves…
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Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play…
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of…
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