The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
BARBARA SHERYour creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it’s positive, it is considered subjective. And ‘objective’ means it is accurate, and ‘subjective’ means it is conceited self-delusion.
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You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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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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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.
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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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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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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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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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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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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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Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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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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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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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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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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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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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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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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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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