Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.Steven Pressfield
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.Steven Pressfield
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.Steven Pressfield
The professional keeps his eye on the doughnut and not on the hole.Steven Pressfield
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work.Steven Pressfield
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.Steven Pressfield
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
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us…we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings.Steven Pressfield
Our 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.Steven Pressfield
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us.Steven Pressfield
Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.Steven Pressfield
Resistance is a force of nature. It acts objectively.Steven Pressfield
The artist must operate territorially. He must do his work for its own sake.Steven Pressfield
It may help to think of it this way. 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.Steven Pressfield
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling.Steven Pressfield