Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
BARBARA SHERThere 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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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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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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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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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And our dreams are who we are.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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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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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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Time is clay; make something.
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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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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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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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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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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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