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.
BARBARA SHERWhen you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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Time is clay; make something.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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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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A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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.
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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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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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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