Pressfield War Quotes

#1. Anything worthwhile is opposed. Steven Pressfield (War of Art) calls this the Resistance.

Michael Hyatt

#2. It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.

Steven Pressfield

#3. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles BY STEVEN PRESSFIELD Pressfield's

Daniel H. Pink

#4. When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately.

Ali Landry

#5. There's bits of my heart in different countries around the world in which I travel.

Michael Jackson

#6. Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

Steven Pressfield

#7. Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

Billy Corgan

#8. Blank eyes stared from sunken sockets as if the divine force, the daimon, had been extinguished like a lamp, replaced by a weariness beyond description, a stare without effect, the hollow gaze of hell itself.

Pressfield, Steven

#9. Stars is easy, people is hard.

Terry Pratchett

#10. A slow fear, heavy, like sadness ... which made her realize that her fear was a kind of sadness, because she couldn't be better than her fear.

Marie Rutkoski

#11. It's one thing to study war
and another to live the warrior's life.
- Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth century B.C.

Steven Pressfield

#12. We appreciate most that which we have lived without.

Brian Rathbone

#13. But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?'
'You say "how very interesting" and change the subject.

Dick Francis

#14. When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.

Steven Pressfield

#15. The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."

Steven Pressfield

#16. Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend
makes them timorous.

Steven Pressfield

#17. Mom's Israeli. Dad's Brazilian. What can I say? I am Embassy Row personified. You really lucked out in the best friend department

Ally Carter

#18. Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

John Milton

#19. When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.

Steven Pressfield

#20. I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

Steven Pressfield

#21. I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

Alicia Machado

#22. My wish for you, Kallistos, is that you survive as many battles in the flesh as you have already fought in your imagination. Perhaps then you will acquire the humility of a man and bear yourself no longer as the demigod you presume yourself to be.

Steven Pressfield

#23. All my human relationships have to do with a mask of me, and I must perpetually be the victim of living a completely hidden life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. Tolstoy had 13 kids and still wrote War & Peace.

Steven Pressfield

#25. I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!

William Congreve

#26. There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

Madeleine Albright

#27. Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.

William Poundstone