542 Quotes by Steven Pressfield

"Start before you're ready."

"The enemy is Resistance."

"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."

"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. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous."

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

"It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write."

"Resistance is always lying and always full of shit."

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

"Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is."