Dustin

“In their minds it is the mark of an ill-prepared and amateur army to rely in the moments before battle on what they call pseudoandreia, false courage, meaning the artificially inflated martial frenzy produced by a general's eleventh-hour harangue or some peak of bronze-banging bravado built to by shouting, shield-pounding and the like[...] It made no difference. None was a match for the warriors of Lakedaemon, and all knew it.”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind.”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

“performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions.”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire