Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfieldis an American author, of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
mind needs products
You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind.
mom children artist
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree-climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, 'Suppertime!'
morning inspiration writing
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.
independent thinking artist
Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.
writing thinking editors
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
integrity believe struggle
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
work artist entrepreneur
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.
unhappy convinced
What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
resistance research want
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
work-out doe free-will
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.
goal resistance aim
Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill
positivity self knights
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
writing night entrepreneur
Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.
want lasts
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.