Book Titles

Do the Work!

By Steven Pressfield

Year Published: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1936719013
Categories: Art, Entrepreneurship, Resistance

24 Quotes Found

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Do the Work!:

Resistance cannot be seen, heard, touched, or smelled. But it can be felt.

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Do the Work!:

Resistance is a repelling force. It’s negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.

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Do the Work!:

…fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

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Do the Work!:

Next to resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneur’s worst enemy.

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Do the Work!:

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies.

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Do the Work!:

Don’t think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we’ve acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.

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Do the Work!:

Fear saps passion. When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

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Do the Work!:

Don’t prepare. Begin. The enemy is Resistance. Start before you’re ready.

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Do the Work!:

…it is better to be primitive than to be sophisticated, and better to be stupid than to be smart.

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Do the Work!:

Get your ideas down on paper. You can always tweak it later.

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