Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
BARBARA SHERBeing judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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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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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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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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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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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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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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