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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.

Barbara Sher

Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
BARBARA SHER

Swimming Thinking Water
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 SHER

Conceited Mean Self
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.
BARBARA SHER

Best Effort Love Mean
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.
BARBARA SHER

Happiness Love Unique
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
BARBARA SHER

Care Genius Originality
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.
BARBARA SHER

Life Love Mean Sorrow
If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
BARBARA SHER

Feel Know Vision Want
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.
BARBARA SHER

Acceptance Love Loving Single Yourself
If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
BARBARA SHER

Failure Successful Truly
Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER

Leadership Motivation Real
What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
BARBARA SHER

Career Heart Passion
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.
BARBARA SHER

Appreciation Needs Remember
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER

Leadership Leap Quantum
Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
BARBARA SHER

Declaration Independence Irreverence
And our dreams are who we are.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Hard Passion Success Work
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.
BARBARA SHER

Inspirational Learning Life

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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