The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Steven Pressfield More Quotes by Steven Pressfield More Quotes From Steven Pressfield On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon. Steven Pressfield positivity dragons knights Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day. Steven Pressfield dark rain attitude We show up. We do our best. Good things happen. Steven Pressfield good-things shows happens If you were meant to cure cancer 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. You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite God Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter further along its path back to God. Steven Pressfield cancer hurt children Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill Steven Pressfield aim resistance goal Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart. Steven Pressfield crazy stupid heart Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work. Steven Pressfield resistance research want Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself. Steven Pressfield waiting The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket. Steven Pressfield crabs buckets leap Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel. Steven Pressfield creativity spiritual ideas Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference. Steven Pressfield hate love-is mean The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell. Steven Pressfield marine baby war You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind. Steven Pressfield courses mind needs ...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition. Steven Pressfield artist inspiration waiting Figure out what scares you the most and do that first. Steven Pressfield scare figures firsts Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. Steven Pressfield ignorance commitment moving Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered. Steven Pressfield demolition ego talking The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego. Steven Pressfield ego hate art As all born teachers, he was primarily a student. Steven Pressfield born students teacher The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers. Steven Pressfield spheres grants inspiration
