Barbara Sher Quotes

Start small.Start now.Start everything.And don’t bother to finish any of it.

~ Barbara Sher

And be grateful that you’re a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what’s between her ears.

~ Barbara Sher

Let’s 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 someday, perhaps to someone who needs an idea. Or your great-great-grandchildren might love knowing what a fascinating mind you had. Or your biographer might be very happy after you’re gone.

~ Barbara Sher

Since then I’ve come to believe you don’t always have to use things you love, and it’s not always so practical to be so practical. Now that I’ve grown up, I realize that all that delicious dilettantism pays its way as much as any degree in medicine or engineering, by making me remember every day—whenever I pick up a book or watch the Science Channel or try to read a map of Asia for no particular reason—that life is amazing and there is no end to the wonder of it.

~ Barbara Sher

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. As a baby, you belong to your parents, you're extension of them. Respect is differentiation: you belong to yourself, and you're an extension of no one. Differentiation is essential for happiness of adults.

~ Barbara Sher

You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you’re not good enough because they can’t understand who you are.

~ Barbara Sher

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

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

~ 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

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.

~ Barbara Sher

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

~ 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

And our dreams are who we are.

~ Barbara Sher

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

~ Barbara Sher

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

~ Barbara Sher

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

~ Barbara Sher

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

~ Barbara Sher

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

~ Barbara Sher