Steven Pressfield Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivational, Self, Doubt

• A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

  Steven Pressfield

  Children, Believe, Heart

  "Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way". Book by Steven Pressfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

• 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

  Struggle, Procrastination, Adversity

  "From Cabbie to Best-Selling Author: Steve Pressfield on ‘Turning Pro’" by Greg Clarkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

• The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Self, Rejection

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.68, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Soul, Doubt

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

• F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I'll be back.

  Steven Pressfield

  Creativity, Self, Flames

• When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level - that's when panic strikes. When we experience panic, it means that we're about to cross a threshold. We're poised on the doorstep of a higher plane.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mean, Self, Doubt

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