the WAR of ART - by Steven Pressfield [scanned book].pdf

RESISTANCE AND ISOLATION S ometimes we balk at embarking on an enterprise because we're afraid of being alone. We feel comfortab ...

they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree- climbing t ...

RESISTANCE AND ISOLATION, PART TWO F riends sometimes ask, "Don't you get lonely sitting by yourself all day?" At first it seeme ...

Even in a book like this, which has no characters, I don't feel alone because I'm imagining the reader, whom I conjure as an asp ...

RESISTANCE AND HEALING H ave you ever spent time in Santa Fe? There's a subculture of "healing" there. The idea is that there's ...

bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes. The part that needs healing is our p ...

might be years before I would, if I ever did at all. That didn't matter. What counted was that I had, after years of running fro ...

RESISTANCE AND SUPPORT H ave you ever been to a workshop? These boondoggles are colleges of Resistance. They ought to give out P ...

passengers were staring. Clearly no one else was gonna step forward and take charge. Carol took the wheel. To her amazement, she ...

RESISTANCE AND RATIONALIZATION R ationalization is Resistance's right-hand man. Its job is to keep us from feeling the shame we ...

But rationalization has its own sidekick. It's that part of our psyche that actually believes what rationalization tells us. It' ...

RESISTANCE AND RATIONALIZATION, PART TWO R esistance is fear. But Resistance is too cunning to show itself naked in this form. W ...

War and Peace. Lance Armstrong had cancer and won the Tour de France three years and counting. 56 THE WAR OF ART ...

RESISTANCE CAN BE BEATEN I f Resistance couldn't be beaten, there would be no Fifth Symphony, no Romeo and Juliet, no Golden Gat ...

BOOK TWO COMBATING RESISTANCE Turning Pro ...

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life. —Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth century B.C. ...

PROFESSIONALS AND AMATEURS A spiring artists defeated by Resistance share one trait. They all think like amateurs. They have not ...

money. Not the way I see it. In my view, the amateur does not love the game enough. If he did, he would not pursue it as a sidel ...

A PROFESSIONAL S omeone once asked Somerset Maugham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only ...

WHAT A WRITER'S DAY FEELS LIKE I wake up with a gnawing sensation of dissatisfaction. Already I feel fear. Already the loved one ...