If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
BARBARA SHERWishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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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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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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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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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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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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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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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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 is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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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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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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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