Steven Pressfield Quotes

The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.

The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

Nobody ever got ready by waiting. You only get ready by starting.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

If you haven't done something yet, and you want to do it, start now!

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

If you don't start, it is certain you won't arrive.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.

Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.