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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.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: 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.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: 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.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: 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.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: 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.”

Steven Pressfield

Variant: 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.
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.”

Steven Pressfield

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

“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

Source: Do the Work

“The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.”

Steven Pressfield

“Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.”

Steven Pressfield

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

“The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.”

Steven Pressfield

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

“You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Dienekes p. 60
Gates of Fire (1998)
Source: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

“Start before you're ready.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: Do the Work

“A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: Do the Work

“Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.”

Steven Pressfield

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

“Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.”

Steven Pressfield

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

“He who whets his steel, whets his courage”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

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

“Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.”

Steven Pressfield

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

“As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

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