It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDOur job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
More Steven Pressfield Quotes
-
-
When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD -
Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD