Steven Pressfield Quotes

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

I just think of myself as a hard-working person who loves my job.

I'm one of those people that do what I do because I love it.

Whatever you dream is you find a way to get there, even if you're not paid a lot. Do it for the love of what you do.

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine.

You gotta love everything you do. You just gotta do it.

I love what I do... When I'm in there I don't want to be nowhere else in the world... I love this game more than anything.

What I've learned from the Pixar guys is 'If you work for the love of what you're doing, it's always going to come out right.' Cause if you're working for a paycheck then it's not going to work in the long run; it's not going to feed your heart and soul.

Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.

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

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.