Steven Pressfield Quotes

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

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• Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Magic
  • Working
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• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Greek
  • Fruit
  • Yogurt

• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Family
  • American
  • House

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
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• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Together
  • Know

• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Joy

• The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.

  

  Max Weber
  • Life
  • Struggle

• There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Jesus Christ

• Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Time
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• Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Real
  • Ideal
  • Sting

• [Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Guitar
  • Bob

• [About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

  

  I. L. Peretz
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• This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.

  

  Betty Smith
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• We have a slight lead over Bremen now, but at this level everything can change in an instant.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Change
  • Lead
  • Instant

• People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

  

  Mencius
  • People
  • Situation
  • Comment

• I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Done
  • Movie

• I like John Cardinal O'Connor a lot. He - I started a - to know him - when I asked William Shawn at The New Yorker, `Sh - can I do a profile of Cardinal O'Connor?' He said, `All right. Find out what he's like.' So I went to his office, and I heard somebody - and it turned out to be O'Connor - yelling outside, and I've never heard him since raise his voice.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Voice
  • Office
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• Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

  

  Steven Pressfield
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