Frasi di Steven Pressfield (70 frasi, pagina 3)

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“You English are loath to embrace the virtues of the warrior. Such an act embarrasses you. You prefer to see yourselves as civilians summoned reluctantly to arms, as-what is the word?-'amatuers.' But you are warriors, you English. You are, Chapman. Trust me, who has faced you in the field.”

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Steven Pressfield libro Killing Rommel

Oberleutnant Ehrlich, wounded German POW, p. 237
Killing Rommel (2008)

“In the end the American dream boils down to what? I'm getting mine and to hell with you.”

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Steven Pressfield libro The Profession

General Salter, p. 306
The Profession (2011)

“If you think this is funny, wait 'till you get into combat. You'll think that's hysterical!”

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Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Polynikes p. 80
Gates of Fire (1998)

“The Mammoth we attacked was not Rommel's after all. […] Rommel himself, we'll learn later, was not in that camp and never had been. At the time of our raid, he was with the 15th Panzer Division, somewhere west of Kidney Ridge, in the thick of the fighting at El Alamein.”

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Steven Pressfield libro Killing Rommel

Richmond Chapman, p. 177
Killing Rommel (2008)

“There is something I must tell you. When Leonidas selected you for the Three Hundred, I went to him in private and argued strenuously against your inclusion. I thought you would not fight. […] I was wrong.”

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Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Polynikes p. 324
Gates of Fire (1998)

“I had become someone they could look to for leadership and direction, who would shield from meddling from above, and would ask no act of them that he wasn't prepared to perform himself. I provided for my men a framework within which they were freed to use their own qualities of courage, resourcefulness and tenacity.”

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Steven Pressfield libro Killing Rommel

Richmond Chapman, p. 175, the second criteria for an able commander
Killing Rommel (2008)

“Bear your command with humility. Lead, do not condescend. Remember, these are great events and men will rise to them. Treat every man as a Soldier. He may surprise you and be one.”

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Steven Pressfield libro Last of the Amazons

Theseus p. 210
Last of the Amazons (2002)

“I have always found the spear to be a rather inelegant weapon”

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Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Apollo p. 47
Gates of Fire (1998)

“I love a guy who knows how to bitch. Any moron can gripe about chow or rotations, but someone who can get exercised over architecture is my kind of dude.”

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Steven Pressfield libro The Profession

Gent, p. 202
The Profession (2011)

“I had always wondered what it felt like to die.”

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Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Gates of Fire (1998)

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