Steven Pressfield Quotes

I can reinvent myself. This is why I've stayed such a long time in the business: because I always change; I'm never the same person.

You need to reinvent yourself every day when you are doing creative work. I always say that the moment I feel I'm at the top of the mountain and I cannot do more, I would be finished. So that's why I always feel the earth quake beneath my feet. I always feel myself on the fire. Because I think this is something that gives you the right adrenaline to work and go forward in your professional life. I have reinvented myself, believe me, many times in my life!

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.

Sometimes you have to re-invent yourself in this business in order to be accepted in different roles.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

I'm just constantly figuring out new ways to reinvent myself.

I've trained different places with different people my whole career. I'm going to continue to do so. It's always been a journey.

In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing.

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

Work changes over time, as you change and the world changes.