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.
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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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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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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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
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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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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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Isolation is a dream killer.
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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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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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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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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
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