Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHERYou 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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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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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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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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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 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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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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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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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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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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