Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you’re in action. Ask yourself, “Does this go toward or away from what I want?” There’s an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
BARBARA SHERUnkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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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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Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
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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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Time is clay; make something.
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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
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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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A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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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.
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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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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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