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> [Start before you’re ready.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/start-before-you-re-ready/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

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> [Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/resistance-is-greatest-just-before-the-finish-line/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

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> [I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/i-knew-i-wanted-to-write-novels-but-i-could-not-finish-what-i-started/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

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## Other authors on Finish

## More by Steven Pressfield

> [Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/most-of-us-have-two-lives-the-life-we-live-and-the-unlived-life/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-artist-and-the-fundamentalist-both-confront-the-same-issue-the/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-professional-arms-himself-with-patience-not-only-to-give-the/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-kabbalah-describes-angels-as-bundles-of-light-meaning/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/there-is-an-enemy-there-is-an-intelligent-active-malign-force-working/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/to-labor-in-the-arts-for-any-reason-other-than-love-is-prostitution/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [“that of dealing death, of loosing another man’s soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/that-of-dealing-death-of-loosing-another-man-s-soul-and-sending-it/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/resistance-is-experienced-as-fear-the-degree-of-fear-equates-to-the/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/when-we-sit-down-each-day-and-do-our-work-power-concentrates-around/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/anything-that-draws-attention-to-ourselves-through-pain-free-or/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/the-gnostics-believed-that-exile-was-the-essential-condition-of-man/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/our-birth-is-but-a-sleep-and-a-forgetting-the-soul-that-rises-with-us/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/you-are-a-writer-when-you-tell-yourself-you-are-no-one-else-s-opinion/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [“Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/resistance-outwits-the-amateur-with-the-oldest-trick-in-the-book-it/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

> [“I don't need to read nothing,' said the New Zealander. 'I was there.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/i-don-t-need-to-read-nothing-said-the-new-zealander-i-was-there/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

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