Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
Steven PressfieldDo we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?
Steven PressfieldThe problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.
Steven PressfieldArt is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.
Steven Pressfield