Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHERFind 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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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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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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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
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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.
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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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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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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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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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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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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting 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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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can’t have it all at once and you can’t have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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