Quotes from Steven Pressfield

Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to the sea.

We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.

Start before you're ready. Good things happen when we start before we're ready.

It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

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.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.