Quote

A writer writes with his genius an artist paints with hers everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

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
Artist
Operates
Writing
Writes
Creates
Center
Paint
Genius
Writer
Sacramental
Everyone
Paints

More quotes by Steven Pressfield

Image
The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.
Steven Pressfield
Image
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
Image
The amateur tweets. The pro works.
Steven Pressfield
Image
When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit rivers make their way to the sea.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
Steven Pressfield
Image
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
Steven Pressfield
Image
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
Image
Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
Steven Pressfield
Image
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
Image
The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.
Steven Pressfield
Image
If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
Steven Pressfield
Image
Persian envoy our arrows will black out the sun... Dienekes of the Spartans..Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
Steven Pressfield
Image
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
Image
Start before you’re ready.
Steven Pressfield