If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
BARBARA SHERTime is clay; make something.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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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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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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Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
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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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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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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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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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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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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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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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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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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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.
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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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Time is clay; make something.
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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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And our dreams are who we are.
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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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