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As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he’s seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can’t do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
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 (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else’s opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
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 (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
If you’re are paralyzed with fear it’s a good sign. It shows you what you have to do (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
Our job in this life 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 (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
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 (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration (Steven Pressfield Quotes)
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket (Steven Pressfield Quotes)