Steven Pressfield quote: "The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone."

Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our ow...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an insta...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus com...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

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

The amateur tweets. The pro works.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourceful...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer tec...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habi...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us....
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers t...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In t...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each d...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. H...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

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

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to fin...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artis...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. L...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day an...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turnin...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a p...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Ly...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

My wish for you, Kallistos, is that you survive as many battles in the flesh as you have already fou...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

In their minds it is the mark of an ill-prepared and amateur army to rely in the moments before batt...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

You are the commanders, your men will look to you and act as you do. Let no officer keep to himself ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

This, I realized now watching Dienekes rally and tend to his men, was the role of the officer: to pr...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call for...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free o...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only yo...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Warfare is theatre, I have said, and the essence of theatre is aritifce. What we show, we will not d...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negati...
STEVEN BIKO

I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I ac...
STEVEN BAUER

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industr...
STEVEN LEVY

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
STEVEN PINKER

I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity,...
STEVEN COJOCARU

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel...
STEVEN PINKER

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street,...
STEVEN SEAGAL

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by ...
STEVEN SINOFSKY

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push ...
STEVEN PINKER

Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get...
STEVEN COJOCARU

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their ...
STEVEN BIKO

When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare...
STEVEN RATTNER

So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological pro...
STEVEN PINKER

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is...
STEVEN SODERBERGH

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
STEVEN CHU

You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools fo...
STEVEN PINKER

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies o...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded wit...
STEVEN BOCHCO

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and univ...
STEVEN PINKER

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your who...
STEVEN COJOCARU

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been chan...
STEVEN COJOCARU

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things ...
STEVEN TYLER

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you str...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speec...
STEVEN PINKER

The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalis...
STEVEN PINKER

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEVEN WRIGHT

If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably ...
STEVEN MAGEE

Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.
STEVEN MAGEE

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.
STEVEN MAGEE

An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud resea...
STEVEN MAGEE

Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either dam...
STEVEN MAGEE

The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.
STEVEN MAGEE

There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surv...
STEVEN MAGEE

The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time wher...
STEVEN MAGEE

Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.
STEVEN MAGEE

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the bou...
STEVEN JOHNSON

A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when ...
STEVEN MAGEE

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that...
STEVEN PINKER

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for ...
STEVEN BIKO

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
STEVEN SQUYRES

The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less peopl...
STEVEN MAGEE

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have com...
STEVEN BIKO

The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele...
STEVEN MAGEE

Chance favors the connected mind.
STEVEN JOHNSON

Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising ...
STEVEN MAGEE

The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossibl...
STEVEN MOFFAT

I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,...
STEVEN MAGEE

The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ...
STEVEN JAMES

Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se...
STEVEN ERIKSON

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
STEVEN WRIGHT

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
STEVEN WEINBERG

Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
STEVEN MOFFAT

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
The Doctor: Believe me... I...
STEVEN MOFFAT

The most deformed AC voltage sine wave that I have seen in my career was at a high altitude astronom...
STEVEN MAGEE

The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical...
STEVEN MAGEE

Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.
STEVEN MAGEE

When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet...
STEVEN KOTLER

It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benef...
STEVEN MAGEE

I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parti...
STEVEN MAGEE

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
STEVEN ERIKSON

We're all stories, in the end.
STEVEN MOFFAT

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
STEVEN BRUST

When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run ...
STEVEN MOFFAT

He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been ...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform...
STEVEN JAMES

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that...
STEVEN HALPERN

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
STEVEN WRIGHT

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
STEVEN SODERBERGH

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to...
STEVEN SEAGAL

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
STEVEN TYLER

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things...
STEVEN WEINBERG

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it h...
STEVEN DEITZ

Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo...
STEVEN WRIGHT

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
STEVEN CHU

Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should reme...
STEVEN ROGERS

I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
STEVEN WRIGHT

A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any ti...
STEVEN DEITZ

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It'...
STEVEN CHU

Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is on...
STEVEN PINKER

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Ros...
STEVEN ADLER

Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with in...
STEVEN PINKER

Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a prete...
STEVEN PINKER

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to c...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than t...
STEVEN PINKER

Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of po...
STEVEN HALL

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
STEVEN WRIGHT

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is,...
STEVEN LEVITAN

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfe...
STEVEN PRICE

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate...
STEVEN SINOFSKY

Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could b...
STEVEN TYLER

When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul All...
STEVEN PINKER

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of m...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
STEVEN WRIGHT

One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new wor...
STEVEN STUCKY

Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, fev...
STEVEN BLUM

Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescrib...
STEVEN BLUM

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or...
STEVEN STRAIT

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of vi...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The ...
STEVEN PINKER

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the ...
STEVEN CHU

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chai...
STEVEN JOHNSON

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they ...
STEVEN SEAGAL

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that ...
STEVEN SEAGAL

If God dropped acid, would he see people?
STEVEN WRIGHT

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News...
STEVEN WEBER

I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a res...
STEVEN LEVITAN

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop,...
STEVEN WRIGHT

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced ...
STEVEN CHU

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of t...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,...
STEVEN PINKER

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oa...
STEVEN PINKER

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less i...
STEVEN WEBER

I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of ...
STEVEN JOHNSON

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this...
STEVEN ADLER

The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's...
STEVEN WEBER

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want ...
STEVEN WEINBERG

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination t...
STEVEN PINKER

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.
STEVEN GERRARD

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, d...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just anothe...
STEVEN SODERBERGH

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second li...
STEVEN TYLER

When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it ...
STEVEN ADLER

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last ...
STEVEN TYLER

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. ...
STEVEN SEAGAL

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning a...
STEVEN PINKER

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them th...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes fro...
STEVEN JOHNSON

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
STEVEN WRIGHT

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.
STEVEN ADLER

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And t...
STEVEN ADLER

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.
STEVEN ADLER

You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you hav...
STEVEN ADLER

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty year...
STEVEN ADLER

The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I wo...
STEVEN ADLER

The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

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The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

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