Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
BARBARA SHERDoing is a quantum leap from imagining.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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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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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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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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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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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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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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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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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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
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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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