Steven Pressfield Quotes

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Genius is eternal patience.

Passion means finding a way.

My creativity thrives with limitations.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Without patience, there can be no genius

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

I've learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like "if it's all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can".

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.