Steven Pressfield Quotes

You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don't take myself too seriously.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

I love what I do. I work a lot, I work all the time, but I love it.

My whole life is my work.

I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

I loved my work, and it was a conscious decision to give my best all the time.

For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.

I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.

I love my work and that's the only thing I think about.

I definitely work a lot, but I love it.

To me, I just play baseball, whether I have the contract or not.

Listen - we party, we have fun, we live life to the fullest. But we're also professional, we also wake up every day and stay on time for our meetings and we also have a structure and a certain structure and a certain substance behind the brand. It's not just luck.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

I think training and being dedicated is very important, but one aspect that I always live by is that I enjoy myself in what I do!

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

I really act for myself. I really love it. I don't think there's a way that you could handle these schedules, all of the actual work that goes into it, if you don't really, really love it.

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.