Steven Pressfield Quotes About Destiny

Quotes about: Destiny

• Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.

  Steven Pressfield

  Destiny, Never Forget, Moments

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.22, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• 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.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Destiny, Shapes

  "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles". Book by Steven Pressfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

• The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivational, Procrastination, Destiny

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.22, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid, at all costs, the voice inside her head that would point her toward her calling and her destiny. So she seeks distraction. The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivational, Destiny, Two

• 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.
  If we were born to paint, it’s our job to become a painter.
  If we were born to raise and nurture children, it’s our job to become a mother.
  If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mother, Jobs, Children

• When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.

  Steven Pressfield

  Running, Destiny, Self

• If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Ignorance, Destiny

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Destiny, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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