Steven Pressfield Quotes

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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

Steven Pressfield
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

Steven Pressfield
Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

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Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times, the calling that is yours and yours alone. You know it. No one has to tell you. And unless I'm crazy, you're no closer to taking action on it than you were yesterday or will be tomorrow. You think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.

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The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

Steven Pressfield
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!'

Steven Pressfield
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

Steven Pressfield