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Steven Pressfield Quotes
"The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying."
"Start before you’re ready."
"Staying stupid. Staying poor. Staying stuck. These are all choices."
"The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch."
"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."
"The essence of creativity is a willingness to play the fool."
"As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls."
"The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it."
"The hardest thing is to sit down and write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance."
"Resistance has no strength of its own. Ever see an ogre blow out an empty paper bag?"
"Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work."
"Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it."
"Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got."
