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A goal is the basic unit of life design.

Barbara Sher

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Barbara Sher
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 14
Died: 2020
Died: May 10
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Essayist
Motivational Speaker
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Detroit
Michigan
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Life
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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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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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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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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Isolation is the dream killer.
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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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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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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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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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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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It's only too late if you don't start now.
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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.
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