We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHERDO 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.
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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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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A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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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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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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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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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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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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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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Time is clay; make something.
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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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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.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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