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Barbara Sher
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 14
Died: 2020
Died: May 10
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Motivational Speaker
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Detroit
Michigan
Time
Parachutes
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Firsts
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When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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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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It's only too late if you don't start now.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.
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A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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.
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But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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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.
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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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What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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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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