Steven Pressfield Turning Pro Quotes & Sayings

Turning pro is like kicking a drug habit or stopping drinking. It's a decision, a decision to which we must re-commit every day. — Steven Pressfield

There's no mystery to turning pro. It's a decision brought about by an act of will. We make up our minds to view ourselves as pros and we do it. Simple as that. — Steven Pressfield

The professional loves it so much he dedicates his life to it. He commits full-time. That's what I mean when I say turning pro. Resistance hates it when we turn pro. — Steven Pressfield

Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct. The problem is that it is a huge commitment. I'd rather direct a play than a film due to the time. A movie can tie you up for a year or more. — Alec Baldwin

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. — Thomas Edward Brown

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what. — Steven Pressfield

Work is easier when its just work; it's much harder when you actually care. — John Maeda

I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. — Steven Pressfield

I tend to over extend myself without really thinking throughthe realities of completing so many projects in a year, which generally means I'm going to be a little bit behind. I suppose that's the nature of the beast. — John Dyer Baizley

In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the fact that you are not an executive is merely because of the social standing of life ... Black people have a hard time getting anywhere. And those that do, are usually straight. In a ballroom, you can be anything you want. — Dorian Corey

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding. — David Allen

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract. — Theodore L. Cuyler

The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again. — James Clerk Maxwell

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is. — Elisabeth Elliot