Steven Pressfield Quotes about Work

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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.

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

Love, Dream, Work

Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.53, Black Irish Books

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

Steven Pressfield

Work, Essence, Focus

Start before you’re ready.

Steven Pressfield

Inspirational, Work, Inspiration

Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.21, Black Irish Books

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

Work, Passion, Artist

Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.39, Black Irish Books

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

Steven Pressfield

Work, Successful, Journey

Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.95, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

Steven Pressfield

Work, Artist, Entrepreneur

Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.67, Black Irish Books