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 SHERDoing 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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And our dreams are who we are.
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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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Time is clay; make something.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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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.
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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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Isolation is a dream killer.
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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can’t have – at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.
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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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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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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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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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