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." ~ Barbara Sher

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

 "The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act." ~ Barbara Sher

 "Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't." ~ Barbara Sher

 "If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want." ~ Barbara Sher

 "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." ~ Barbara Sher

 "You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you" ~ Barbara Sher

 "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." ~ Barbara Sher

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

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

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

 "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." ~ Barbara Sher

 "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." ~ Barbara Sher

 "The cure for sorrow is to learn something." ~ Barbara Sher

 "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." ~ Barbara Sher

 "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." ~ Barbara Sher

 "Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem." ~ Barbara Sher

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

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

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

 "Originality is genius.  If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life." ~ Barbara Sher

 "Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor." ~ Barbara Sher

 "Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation." ~ Barbara Sher

 "Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously." ~ Barbara Sher

 "Doing is a quantum leap from imagining." ~ Barbara Sher

 "A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way." ~ Barbara Sher

"Change is not only likely, it's inevitable." ~ Barbara Sher

 "If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful." ~ Barbara Sher

 "Irreverence is a declaration of independence." ~ Barbara Sher

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

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

 "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." ~ Barbara Sher

 "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." ~ Barbara Sher

 "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

 "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

 "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." ~ Barbara Sher

 "It's only too late if you don't start now." ~ Barbara Sher

 "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

 "Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner." ~ Barbara Sher

 "You don't have to get it right the first time." ~ Barbara Sher

 "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

 "The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners." ~ Barbara Sher

 "Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it." ~ Barbara Sher

 "A goal is the basic unit of life design." ~ Barbara Sher

 "We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music." ~ Barbara Sher

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

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