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!:

When you know what your [idea] is about… you’ll know the end state. And when you know the end state, you’ll know the steps to take to get there.

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Do the Work!:

When you… set out to create anything… [you] uncork from the universe, ineluctably, an equal and opposite reaction. That reaction is Resistance.

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Do the Work!:

Resistance is an active, intelligent, protean, malign force… whose sole object is to stop us from becoming our best selves and from achieving our higher goals.

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One thing we can never, never permit ourselves to do is to take Resistance lightly, to underestimate it or to fail to take it into account.

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Do the Work!:

Forget rational thought. Play. Play like a child.

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Do the Work!:

The enemy [Resistance] is inside you, but it is not you.

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Do the Work!:

The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, and pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.

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Do the Work!:

A crash means we have failed. We gave it everything we had and we came up short. A crash does not mean we are losers. A crash means we have to grow.

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Do the Work!:

Our greatest fear is fear of success. When we are succeeding – that’s when panic strikes.

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When we experience panic, it means that we’re about to cross a threshold. We’re poised on the doorstep of a higher plane.

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