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 SHERImaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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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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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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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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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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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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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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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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