542 Quotes by Steven Pressfield

Right now with blogs and the flood of internet access, a multitude of aspiring writers think they’re ready for prime time. They’re not. Be great. Read. Write. Bust your ass. Learn and find your voice. As hard as you think it is, it’s a hundred times harder.

Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work.

Get your idea down on paper. You can always tweak it later.

Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.

It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.

We know what the clan is; we know how to fit into the band and the tribe. What we don’t know is how to be alone. We don’t know how to be free individuals. The.

Assistance is the universal, immutable force of creative manifestation, whose role since the Big Bang has been to translate potential into being, to convert dreams into reality.

Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure.

Don’t wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.