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Стивен Прессфилд — американский писатель и сценарист.

Прессфилд — автор и соавтор 34 сценариев кинофильмов, автор исторических романов преимущественно о Древней Греции и научно-популярных книг. Его роман о спартанцах и битве при Фермопилах «Врата огня» изучают в Военной академии и Военно-морской академиях США. Эта книга и еще два романа Прессфилда занимали верхние строчки в списке бестселлеров Греции. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Сентябрь 1943   •   Другие имена סטיבן פרספילד, Սթիվեն Փրեսֆիլդ
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“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Источник: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

“Give them this: they were tough. Tougher than the Scyths and Getai, for all their savage valor, and tougher than the Amazons, despite their dash and dazzle.”

Steven Pressfield книга Last of the Amazons

Damon p. 308
Last of the Amazons (2002)
Контексте: The foe fell back. Our companies pushed through. For the time it takes to count to five hundred, I thought we might even conquer. For now the mulishness of the Athenian Soldier-farmer, the pigheaded refusal to yield which had at first been scorned by his betters-now this shone to the fore. By the gods, these clodkickers had learned how to fight! [... ] They no longer fell apart at the apparition of cowardice among their comrades or themselves, but had come to understand that the same man may play the craven in the morning and the hero in the afternoon. Give them this: they were tough. Tougher than the Scyths and Getai, for all their savage valor, and tougher than the Amazons, despite their dash and dazzle.

“A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.”

Источник: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

“We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.”

Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.”

Источник: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

“It’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.”

Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference”

Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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

Steven Pressfield книга The War of Art

Источник: The War of Art (2002), p. 13

“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”

Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”

Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”

Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

Вариант: Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles