It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
BARBARA SHERFind 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.
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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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.
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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.
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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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 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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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.
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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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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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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
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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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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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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Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
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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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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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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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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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