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If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.

Barbara Sher

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Barbara Sher
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 14
Died: 2020
Died: May 10
Author
Essayist
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Feared
Failure
Truly
Successful

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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.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.
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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.
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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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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