Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave to defend makes them timorous.
Steven Pressfield
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port-of-Spain
Attack
Even
Command
Always
Timorous
Men
Defense
Commands
Thus
Possesses
Brave
Attacking
Arms
Initiative
Action
Defend
Makes
More quotes by Steven Pressfield
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work they're just taking dictation.
Steven Pressfield
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
Steven Pressfield
Start before you’re ready.
Steven Pressfield
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.
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
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.
Steven Pressfield
Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
Steven Pressfield
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying Grow! Grow! ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying Evolve! Evolve!
Steven Pressfield
To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.
Steven Pressfield
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
Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.
Steven Pressfield
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
Steven Pressfield
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
Steven Pressfield
The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically war stories.
Steven Pressfield
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
We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
Steven Pressfield
If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.
Steven Pressfield
When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
Steven Pressfield
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.
Steven Pressfield
