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.

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• Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

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• The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.

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• The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.

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• Fear doesn’t go away.

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

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• Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

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• Resistance’s goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.

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• Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it’s for failure.

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• Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

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• Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

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• The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference.

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• To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

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• 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.

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• If you’re are paralyzed with fear it’s a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

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• The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

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• We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

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• The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

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Steven Pressfield (18)

Birth:	September, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1943, while his father was stationed there, in the Navy. He graduated from Duke University in 1965 and in 1966 joined the Marine Corps.

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