It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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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The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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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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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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A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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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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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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And our dreams are who we are.
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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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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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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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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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