Quotes from Barbara Sher

You see, you're not someone without direction; you're an investigator, and the whole investigative process consists of learning a little bit about everything that looks interesting to you. If you respect your natural curiosity, you'll come to trust your enthusiasm. It knows something about you. Your trail of enthusiasms is the most precise instrument you have for locating where you'd find the deepest satisfaction in your life.

Maybe coming up with ideas is just the way your brain dances. Instead of thinking "This could be a great opportunity for success!" why not enlarge the meaning of "opportunity" to include the Good Feeling? As in: "This could be a great opportunity for my brain to boogie!

You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.

Remember that to yourself, you are and always will be the strongest element in your environment. That's why any job, right or wrong, will teach you important lessons about yourself. The truth is that personal development is the real reason you should be working in the first place.

This feeling is the cause of every Scanner's unexpected ending. The dread of being locked away from their main source of energy and joy—learning, discovering, sleuthing, creating—makes Scanners pull back from every job or project, no matter how hard they try to stay.

But the main reason Scanners are different from others, and the reason they get noticed for not sticking to anything, is because they learn faster than almost anybody.

How would it feel to forget about finding your big passion and enjoy the delightful fact that you can learn anything you like and your life will be filled with variety and excitement?

You might find the perfect combination of all your interests and have a very enjoyable career. Or you might discover that what you really love is learning itself.

A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.

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

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

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.

People who aren't interested in anything are people who can't stop protecting their enthusiasm.

What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That's what true adventure really is.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

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.

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

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

If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want.