If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
BARBARA SHEREvery time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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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.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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Real Dreams don’t require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.
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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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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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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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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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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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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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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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Time is clay; make something.
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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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Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
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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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