Frasi di Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield è uno scrittore e sceneggiatore trinidadiano, che vive a Malibù in California .

Ha prestato servizio nel Corpo dei Marines degli Stati Uniti, e successivamente si è laureato alla Duke University.

✵ 1. Settembre 1943   •   Altri nomi סטיבן פרספילד, Սթիվեն Փրեսֆիլդ
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Steven Pressfield: Frasi in inglese

“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Origine: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

“Give them this: they were tough. Tougher than the Scyths and Getai, for all their savage valor, and tougher than the Amazons, despite their dash and dazzle.”

Steven Pressfield libro Last of the Amazons

Damon p. 308
Last of the Amazons (2002)
Contesto: The foe fell back. Our companies pushed through. For the time it takes to count to five hundred, I thought we might even conquer. For now the mulishness of the Athenian Soldier-farmer, the pigheaded refusal to yield which had at first been scorned by his betters-now this shone to the fore. By the gods, these clodkickers had learned how to fight! [... ] They no longer fell apart at the apparition of cowardice among their comrades or themselves, but had come to understand that the same man may play the craven in the morning and the hero in the afternoon. Give them this: they were tough. Tougher than the Scyths and Getai, for all their savage valor, and tougher than the Amazons, despite their dash and dazzle.

“We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.”

Origine: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

Origine: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.”

Origine: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

“It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.”

Origine: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference”

Origine: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”

Origine: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”

Origine: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”

Origine: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“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.”

Variante: Our job in this life 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.
Origine: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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