You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
BARBARA SHERIf you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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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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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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Isolation is the dream killer.
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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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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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Time is clay; make something.
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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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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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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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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And our dreams are who we are.
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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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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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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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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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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