"The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and……" — Steven Pressfield
"The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts."
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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 Compliment Quotes
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
— Victoria Beckham
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Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the…
— Mary J. Blige
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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
— Albert Brooks
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's…
— Joyce Brothers
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority…
— Samuel Butler
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward.…
— Nick Cave
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a…
— Tommy Chong
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
— Luc de Clapiers
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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I…
— Clarence Clemons
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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
— Robert Breault
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