“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”
Источник: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
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.
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“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”
Источник: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
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.
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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
Источник: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“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
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Источник: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles