"When we conquer our fears, we discover a……" — Steven Pressfield
"When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion."
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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 Bottomless Quotes
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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price…
— James A. Baldwin
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
— Pema Chodron
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Law is a bottomless pit.
— John Arbuthnot
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in…
— King James I
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Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest…
— Robert Peel
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The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation…
— Lance Armstrong
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
— John Arbuthnot
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We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them…
— Daniel Quinn
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
— Joan Didion
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend…
— Michael Robotham
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had…
— Willa Cather
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Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current…
— Caterina Fake
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