You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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And our dreams are who we are.
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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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Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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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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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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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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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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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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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