A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.
Steven PressfieldTag: humor alexander-the-great
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A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
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Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
Steven PressfieldFor what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.
Steven PressfieldLike us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.
Steven PressfieldTag: political-philosophy social-commentary
Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over."
"Not to me. Not to them.
Tag: inspirational
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime. That is why the true warrior cannot speak of battle save to his brothers who have been there with him. The truth is too holy, too sacred, for words." -Suicide (Gates of Fire)
Steven PressfieldIt’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
Steven PressfieldThe drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work, to make something that matters, regardless of anything else that is going on.
Steven PressfieldTag: kindlehighlight
The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
Steven PressfieldTag: kindlehighlight
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