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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

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
Isolation is a dream killer.
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Dream Killer Life
Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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Leadership Motivation Real
Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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Behavior Cop Judgmental
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Music Used Violin
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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Happiness Love Unique
Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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Love Obligation Passion Privilege
Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.
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Appreciation Needs Remember
Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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Dream Endeavor Wish
What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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Career Heart Passion
Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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Becoming Healing Sometimes
Time is clay; make something.
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Clay Make Something
The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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Environment Success Winner
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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Leadership Leap Quantum
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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Healing Sadness Sorrow
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
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Best Effort Love Mean
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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Design Play Time
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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Love Marriage Way
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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Attitude Real Worry
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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Moving People Two
A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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Nature Step Way
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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Care Genius Originality
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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Swimming Thinking Water
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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Delight Emotional Support
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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Dream Inspiration Inspiring
Isolation is the dream killer.
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Dream Isolation Killers
You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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Heart Tell Want

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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