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Steven Pressfield Quotes

Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1943

Topics

Life Live Resistance Two Within Us

One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Mother Wife People Think Early

Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.

Home Today Someone Way Same Years

I have to plan all my meals and snacks every day, or the wheels come off, and I gain weight.

Day Plan Every Day Gain Weight Meals

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

Growth People World Chance Year

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

College Employees New Special First

My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.

Work Be Kind Wife Fun Joy Have Fun

You address the respect issue in a team-meeting environment. With respect to its application, it's not just locker room. It's practice field. It's on and off the field. It's on Sunday, and it's on game days.

Respect Practice Game You Sunday

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

Me Enjoy Only Stories Comics Were

Friends have a big influence over how you feel, think, and behave.

Influence Think Feel Friends You

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Vision World Promises Trying Results

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Politics American Political Nothing

A lot of people look at me as such a nice guy; they don't understand how dangerous I can actually be.

People Me Look I Can Dangerous Nice

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