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.
BARBARA SHERTime is clay; make something.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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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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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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.
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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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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
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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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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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What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
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