Steven Pressfield Quotes

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

If you're waiting for inspiration, you'll wait until you're dead.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

If you have a vision, do something with it.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.