Quote

Resistance is experienced as fear the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port-of-Spain
Indicators
Experienced
Resistance
Degree
Degrees
Strength
Fear
Equates

More quotes by Steven Pressfield

Image
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to identify with a braver part of yourself or your higher nature. So it's that negative repelling force. It's kind of the dragon that we have to slay every day if we're artists or entrepreneurs.
Steven Pressfield
Image
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.
Steven Pressfield
Image
The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
Steven Pressfield
Image
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
Steven Pressfield
Image
The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.
Steven Pressfield
Image
The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
Steven Pressfield
Image
When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.
Steven Pressfield
Image
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work they're just taking dictation.
Steven Pressfield
Image
When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level - that's when panic strikes. When we experience panic, it means that we're about to cross a threshold. We're poised on the doorstep of a higher plane.
Steven Pressfield