Quotes by Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “ — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, po — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Muse, We are servants of the Mystery. We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existenc — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
We are servants of the Mystery. We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existence that — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
We experience [procrastination] as fear. But fear of what?Fear of the consequences of following our heart. Fear of bankr — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates — Steven Pressfield, 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 — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man who, after he had plundere — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are com — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A peck — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The — Steven Pressfield, 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 pursui — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & 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 cr — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expr — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized be — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles