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.
BARBARA SHERThinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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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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Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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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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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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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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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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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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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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Time is clay; make something.
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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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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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