Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfieldis an American author, of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
resistance lines finish-line
Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
humble humility warrior
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct themselves flamboyantly in public. But alone with the work they are chaste and humble. They know they are not the source of the creations they bring into being. They only facilitate. They carry. They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve.
fighting arrows black
Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
waiting
Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
ideas iron insight
When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
opposites said
The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.
passion two discipline
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.
world hitting would-be
But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested.
race air self
It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
resistance months foundation
Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
artist entrepreneur want
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.
jobs heaven may
You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in the image of heaven. The gods can't do their work without us. So let's be bold, in their cause and in our own. It's our job, we humans, to make manifest that which is unmanifest-and to raise into consciousness, in this material dimension, that which had been known before only in heaven.
war warrior study
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
jobs ignorance destiny
If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.