142 Quotes by Barbara Sher

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.

Little by little, the process of writing your ideas in your Daybook will change the way you feel about not following up on every one of your good ideas, because it becomes so clear that planning, designing, and making a record of your ideas in something called a Scanner Daybook isn’t making a promise; it’s the way inventive people enjoy themselves.

If you’re burned out, learning something new or doing something creative is the cure.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.

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

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf.

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.