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“ 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. ”

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

~ Barbara Sher

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

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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

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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

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