Steven Pressfield Quotes
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
Quotes to Explore
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I am a journalist.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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Whatever people want to say, we go out there every night, and we give tribute to the songs that my brother wrote, to Ronnie and Allen Collins and Steve Gaines and Leon Wilkeson and everybody. We pay tribute every night to those people who have gone on.
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When Scott asked me to marry him and I said 'yes,' I realized that moment was bigger than getting married. 'I'm going to stay. I'm actually going to commit to this.'
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I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
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And like everybody else in the known universe, she didn’t always let herself in on the truth.
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Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
