Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfieldis an American author, of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
lying believe one-thing
It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
book acquaintance sooner-or-later
When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.
morning pages matter
Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.
resistance heard felt
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
believe artist effort
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
doe forget wholeheartedly
The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
song composing
The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
inspirational mma bulls
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.
yield resistance spirit
To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
running destiny self
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
book people fake
A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.
sake attention fortune
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
masters self-mastery
Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
work passion artist
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.