Steven Pressfield Quotes

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

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• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Myself

• I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Stop

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Chinese

• I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Experience

• I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Political
  • Path
  • Economic

• 'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Home
  • Hair
  • Cooking

• If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • True
  • Man
  • Friend

• Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Job

• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Energy
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Call

• My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Father
  • Husband

• Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Morning

• Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Internet
  • Information

• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Morality
  • Stomach

• Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their own pretend play. Children with the most elaborate and beloved imaginary friends will gently remind overenthusiastic adults that these companions are, after all, just pretend.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Children
  • Real
  • Friends

• This game is something Australians really look forward to.

  

  Matthew Hayden
  • Game

• With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.

  

  James Wolcott

• The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • World
  • Risk

• Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

  

  Steven Pressfield
  • World
  • Contribution
  • Cheat