Quotes by Steven Pressfield

“If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.”

“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. Th...”

“Phobologic discipline is comprised of twenty-eight exercises, each focusing upon a separate nexus of the nervous system. The five primaries are the knees and hams, lungs and heart, loins and bowels...”

“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”

“A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.”

“A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.”

“Start before you're ready.”

“The enemy is Resistance.”

“Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses theinitiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defendmakes them timorous.”

“When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and notcampaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.”

“Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: ...”

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

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

“There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.”

“Next morning I went over to Pauls for coffee and told him I had finished. Good for you, he said without looking up. Start the next one today.”

“This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers dont. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approve...”

“Muse, We are servants of the Mystery. We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existence that which is not yet, but which will be, through us. Every breath we take,...”

“We are servants of the Mystery. We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existence that which is not yet, but which will be, through us. Every breath we take, every...”

“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.”

“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...”