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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.

Barbara Sher

And our dreams are who we are.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Hard Passion Success Work
Find 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.
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Facts Greatness Love
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Music Used Violin
You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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Action Firsts Time
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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Inspirational Learning Life
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Esteem Resentment Self Weak
Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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Dream Endeavor Wish
Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Find Love Out Stick Sticks
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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Life Love Mean Sorrow
Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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Love Obligation Passion Privilege
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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Acceptance Love Loving Single Yourself
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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Dream Inspiration Loss
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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Conceited Mean Self
Real Dreams don’t require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Jobs Real
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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Home Horse Tired
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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Criticism Meaningful Purpose

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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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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