Barbara Sher Quotes

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.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

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.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

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.

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.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Isolation is a dream killer.

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.

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

You don't have to get it right the first time.

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.

Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.

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

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.

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.

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.

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

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.

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.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

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.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

Time is clay; make something.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

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.

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

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.

Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

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

And our dreams are who we are.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

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.

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

A goal is the basic unit of life design.

Isolation is the dream killer.

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

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

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.