Quotes from Steven Pressfield
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.
- Steven Pressfield
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
- Steven Pressfield
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
- Steven Pressfield
The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.
- Steven Pressfield
A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
- Steven Pressfield
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
- Steven Pressfield
Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
- Steven Pressfield
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
- 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.
- Steven Pressfield
He who whets his steel, whets his courage.
- Steven Pressfield
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
- Steven Pressfield
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.
- Steven Pressfield