If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
BARBARA SHERUnkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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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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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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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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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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