The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first. Steven Pressfield More Quotes by Steven Pressfield More Quotes From Steven Pressfield The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off. Steven Pressfield dream work love You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas. Steven Pressfield squares artist war Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. Steven Pressfield opponents self enemy Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye. Steven Pressfield nice goodbye people It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it. Steven Pressfield one-thing believe lying Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence. Steven Pressfield unique ambition believe The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. Steven Pressfield careers stars patience A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope. Steven Pressfield passion artist work The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it. Steven Pressfield composing song 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 mother jobs children When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion. Steven Pressfield conquer wells passion It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from. Steven Pressfield succeed pay culture The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. Steven Pressfield real self inspirational Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working. Steven Pressfield pages gone morning Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance. Steven Pressfield soul self doubt I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being by their own imperative to be born, via the offices of those willing servants of discipline, imagination and inspiration whom we call artists. Steven Pressfield inspiration believe book Start before you’re ready. Steven Pressfield inspiration work inspirational A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this. Steven Pressfield horse should knows 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 mma bulls inspirational Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off. Steven Pressfield quitting stubborn dumb
