We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHERThere 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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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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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do 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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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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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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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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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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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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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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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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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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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Every 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.
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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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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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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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