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.
BARBARA SHERIt’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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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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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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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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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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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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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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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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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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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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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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Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you’re in action. Ask yourself, “Does this go toward or away from what I want?” There’s an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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