Frases de Steven Pressfield (71 citas)

“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”

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Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Fuente: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

“Humankind is commanded to ascend from savagery. This is God's mandate, which cries out from the epicenter of our being: the imperative to mount from the base to the noble, from the savage to the civil, from beast to human.”

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Steven Pressfield libro Last of the Amazons

Theseus p. 119
Last of the Amazons (2002)

“Give them this: they were tough. Tougher than the Scyths and Getai, for all their savage valor, and tougher than the Amazons, despite their dash and dazzle.”

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Steven Pressfield libro Last of the Amazons

Damon p. 308
Last of the Amazons (2002)
Contexto: The foe fell back. Our companies pushed through. For the time it takes to count to five hundred, I thought we might even conquer. For now the mulishness of the Athenian Soldier-farmer, the pigheaded refusal to yield which had at first been scorned by his betters-now this shone to the fore. By the gods, these clodkickers had learned how to fight! [... ] They no longer fell apart at the apparition of cowardice among their comrades or themselves, but had come to understand that the same man may play the craven in the morning and the hero in the afternoon. Give them this: they were tough. Tougher than the Scyths and Getai, for all their savage valor, and tougher than the Amazons, despite their dash and dazzle.

“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

“We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: Do the Work

“A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

“This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

“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.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference”

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Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”

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Steven Pressfield libro The War of Art

Fuente: The War of Art (2002), p. 13

“Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.”

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“Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.”

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“The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”

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Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“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.”

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Steven Pressfield

Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

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Variante: Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
Fuente: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles