Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfieldis an American author, of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
stupid crazy heart
Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
creativity self flames
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I'll be back.
baby war pride
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.
hate mean love-is
Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference.
scare firsts figures
Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
writing sitting sitting-down
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
mind needs products
You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind.
spiritual creativity ideas
Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.
gold steel spokes
You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
virtue cardinals contempt
Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.
resistance
Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
lying passing-by law
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
pain mean resistance
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
talking ego intoxication
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered.