What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle. Steven Pressfield More Quotes by Steven Pressfield More Quotes From Steven Pressfield The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like. Steven Pressfield rewards products art Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?" They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again. Steven Pressfield editors writing thinking Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. Steven Pressfield resistance Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you’ve lost your passion, or that you can’t identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true. Steven Pressfield passion children thinking The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle. Steven Pressfield dragons knights battle Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work. Steven Pressfield resistance motivation fields When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic. Steven Pressfield character drama war Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working. Steven Pressfield demon artist faces Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. Steven Pressfield passing-by law lying Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. Steven Pressfield editors writing thinking No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families. Steven Pressfield rely-upon resilience thinking In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance. Steven Pressfield favors integrity long Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work. Steven Pressfield aim resistance I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count. Steven Pressfield entrepreneur artist want Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance? Steven Pressfield staring resistance faces Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you. Steven Pressfield independent artist thinking Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready. Steven Pressfield ready good-things happens We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance. Steven Pressfield body struggle thinking Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable. Steven Pressfield resistance Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Steven Pressfield indicators resistance degrees
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