Quotes from Steven Pressfield
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
- Steven Pressfield
Start before you're ready.
- Steven Pressfield
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.
- Steven Pressfield
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
- Steven Pressfield
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.
- Steven Pressfield
The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn't devote his life to it of his own free will.
- Steven Pressfield
The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.
- Steven Pressfield
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
- Steven Pressfield
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
- Steven Pressfield
Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
- Steven Pressfield
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
- Steven Pressfield