Barbara Sher Quotes - Page 3

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• It's only too late if you don't start now.

  Barbara Sher

  Too Late, Late, Ifs

  "It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE". Book by Barbara Sher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 1999.

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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.

  Barbara Sher

  Life, Believe, Forever

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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.

  Barbara Sher

  Wish, Desire, Information

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

  Barbara Sher

  Silly, Self Worth, Sea

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• 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.

  Barbara Sher

  Emotional, Support, Delight

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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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.

  Barbara Sher

  Time, Play, Design

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.47, Dell

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• What you are is a human being, sensitive and alive, with genius inside of you. Not only that, but you are one of a kind. There has never been anyone like you before. You see the world in a unique way because you have unique gifts. That's the way nature made you. And it will feel like nothing less than fulfilling your destiny to follow those gifts to a rich and exciting life, full of purpose and meaning and enjoyment.

  Barbara Sher

  Unique, Destiny, Purpose

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• 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.

  Barbara Sher

  Meaningful, Criticism, Purpose

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• Find out what you love.
  Do it because you love it.
  Stick with it.
  Start now.

  Barbara Sher

  Sticks, What You Love

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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.

  Barbara Sher

  Thinking, Careers, Choices

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.23, Dell

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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.

  Barbara Sher

  Greatness, Love Is, Facts

  Barbara Sher (2013). “It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE”, p.354, Dell

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• Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

  Barbara Sher

  Jobs, Swimming, Thinking

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• Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

  Barbara Sher

  Fool, Judgmental, Can Do

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.67, Dell

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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.

  Barbara Sher

  Horse, Home, Tired

  Barbara Sher (2007). “Refuse To Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams”, p.226, Rodale

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• Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.

  Barbara Sher

  Self Esteem, Good Luck, Animal

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• We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

  Barbara Sher

  Music, Violin, Used

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• Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters-or you're just fooling around.

  Barbara Sher

  Guarantees That, Careers, Worry

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.30, Dell

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• Isolation is the dream killer.

  Barbara Sher

  Dream, Killers, Isolation

  Barbara Sher (2007). “Refuse To Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams”, p.95, Rodale

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• Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

  Barbara Sher

  Country, Horizon, Destination

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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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.

  Barbara Sher

  Mean, Conceited, Self

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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