The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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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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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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Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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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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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Time is clay; make something.
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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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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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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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