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Do the Work
You may think that you’ve lost your passion, or that you can’t identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
Get to THE END as if the devil himself were breathing down your neck and poking you in the butt with his pitchfork. Believe me, he is. Get the serum to Nome. Get the Conestoga wagon to the
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
Cover the Canvas One rule for first full working drafts: get them done ASAP. Don’t worry about quality. Act, don’t reflect. Momentum is everything. Get to THE END as if the devil himself were breathing down your neck and poking you in the butt with his pitchfork. Believe me, he is.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
Our job is not to control our idea; our job is to figure out what our idea is (and wants to be)—and then bring it into being.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
Ask yourself what’s missing. Then fill that void.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
a boatload of other well-intentioned ideologies that evolved during the mass-culture, industrialized, dehumanizing epoch of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—all posited the same fantasy. They all preached that human nature was perfectible and that, thereby, evil could be overcome.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
In writing, “action” means putting words on paper. “Reflection” means evaluating what we have on paper.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
David Lean famously declared that a feature film should have seven or eight major sequences. That’s a pretty good guideline for our play, our album, our State of the Union address.