Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think youโve lost your passion, or that you canโt identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. None of these is true.
Steven PressfieldYou have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
Steven PressfieldWe fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if itโs true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.
Steven Pressfield