Top 75 Barbara Sher Quotes
#1. The problem is that most of us have limited our imagination to what we have been told is possible - and usually we've been told by people without much experience.
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#2. If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
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#3. We weigh ourselves down with so many obstacles we can't even buy a goldfish bowl.
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#4. 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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#5. It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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#6. 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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#7. When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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#8. Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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#9. 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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#10. About things you merely like? Would you rather learn how to plant a garden, work with friends to paint a house, or just have a great day with
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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#14. What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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#16. 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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#17. The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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#18. 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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#19. A good work is a partnership between you and nature ... Nature will help you every step of the way.
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#20. And be grateful that you're a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what's between her ears.
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#21. Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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#22. Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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#23. Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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#24. The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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#25. 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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#26. Remember that to yourself, you are and always will be the strongest element in your environment. That's why any job, right or wrong, will teach you important lessons about yourself. The truth is that personal development is the real reason you should be working in the first place.
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#27. Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.
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#28. 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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#29. Find out what you love.
Do it because you love it.
Stick with it.
Start now.
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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#35. In your fantasies you imagine that you'd love to have all the clutter gone so you could relax, but in fact, nobody really wants to relax. Not for very long, anyway. Everybody needs something to do.
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#36. Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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#37. You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.
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#38. 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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#39. It's only too late if you don't start now.
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#40. 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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#41. You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you're not good enough because they can't understand who you are.
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#42. Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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#46. Start small.
Start now.
Start everything.
And don't bother to finish any of it.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.
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#50. 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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#51. The two most important rules for any dream are: Start small. Start now. For Scanners, add two more: Start everything and Don't bother to finish any of it. (Just save it in your Daybook!)
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#52. 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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#53. You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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#54. You don't have to get it right the first time.
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#55. A scholar is someone who sticks to things.
A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.
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#56. The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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#57. Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
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#58. I imagine there are orderly, well-organized Scanners in the world, but there can't be very many of them. It's far more common to hear a Scanner mumbling, Now, where did I put that lizard?
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#59. 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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#61. Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#66. Did you know that on one of the islands of Orkney, in the North of Scotland, there are some runes that when translated turned out to be Viking graffiti? Eight feet up a wall it says "A tall Viking wrote this." You gotta love that.
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#67. If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want.
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#69. Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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#70. Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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#71. You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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#72. Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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#73. 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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#74. Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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#75. You just have to forget whatever you were taught about "meaningful work" and start noticing whatever has meaning to you.
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