Barbara Sher Quotes

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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.

Barbara Sher
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

Barbara Sher
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

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Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

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Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

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Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That's what true adventure really is.

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Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.

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We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.

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What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

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A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.

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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

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You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

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In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

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Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.

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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

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Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters-or you're just fooling around.

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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life.

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What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

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