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.
BARBARA SHERWe all need to learn a new language for love – a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other’s uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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 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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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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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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We all need to learn a new language for love – a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other’s uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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 cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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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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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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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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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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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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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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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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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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