The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
Barbara SherRead
Find out what you love._x000D_ Do it because you love it._x000D_ Stick with it._x000D_ Start now.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote encourages individuals to pursue their passions and commit to them wholeheartedly.
Barbara Sher's quote emphasizes the importance of discovering one's passions and dedicating oneself to pursuing those interests. It highlights that true fulfillment comes from engaging in activities we love, and it encourages immediate action towards those pursuits with a commitment to see them through, suggesting that starting right away is crucial to achieving personal satisfaction and success.
Themes
PassionCommitmentActionLovePursuit
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech to inspire students about choosing their careers.
More from Barbara Sher
All quotes βDoing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
Barbara SherRead
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.
Barbara SherRead
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.
Barbara SherRead
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 SherRead
Similar quotes
The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
Twyla TharpRead
Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up, and it's often not cool to be the person that puts themself out there, and I've often gotten teased mercilessly, but I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in - even if it makes you vulnerable - amazing things can and will happen.
Emma WatsonRead
Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.
Greg BoyleRead
Our young people desperately want the chance to participate in and lead our nation's economic and cultural revival. They're up for the challenges that they're going to inherit. It only remains for us to present the path to address them.
Andrew YangRead
I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.'
Lady GagaRead
No matter where you are now, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.
Napoleon HillRead