When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.
BARBARA SHERDoing is a quantum leap from imagining.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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Isolation is the dream killer.
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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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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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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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There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can’t have – at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.
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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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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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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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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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