The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDWhen we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe professional will not tolerate disorder… He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThose who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDBe too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDIt is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDDo you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
STEVEN PRESSFIELDIt’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDLong-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 PRESSFIELDThe sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDWe come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDIn my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDResistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDSlay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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