It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
BARBARA SHERThe environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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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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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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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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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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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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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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