"The professional respects his craft. He does not……" — Steven Pressfield
"The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them."
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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 Apprentices Quotes
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Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are…
— Simone Weil
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The first time I saw Giggsy, he was playing for Salford Boys against United's apprentices. He was thin and wiry…
— Bryan Robson
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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there…
— Aristotle
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Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.
— Jacques Necker
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Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek…
— William Coperthwaite
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At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that…
— Richard Dooling
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Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says…
— Thomas Sydenham
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I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see…
— Michael Gungor
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To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in…
— Barbara Tuchman
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A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time…
— Dallas Willard
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