Quotes by Barbara Sher

“Start small.Start now.Start everything.And dont bother to finish any of it.”

“And be grateful that youre a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but whats between her ears.”

“Lets end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away...”

“Since then Ive come to believe you dont always have to use things you love, and its not always so practical to be so practical. Now that Ive grown up, I realize that all that delicious dilettantism...”

“How can families harm us when they love us? Very easily, unfortunately. Most of us overlook one important fact when we think love is enough: Love and respect aren't the same thing.Love is fusion. A...”

“You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks youre not good enoughbecause they cant understand who you are.”

“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.”

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

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

“Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.”

“The cure for sorrow is to learn something.”

“Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.”

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

“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.”

“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 though...”

“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.”

“Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.”

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

“Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.”

“"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.”