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Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.

Benjamin Zander

Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
BENJAMIN ZANDER

Eye Looks Shining
Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
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Difference Differences Making May
This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.
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Important Jobs People
We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.
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Block Childish Disperse Fear Inventing
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Architect Possibility Relentless
how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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Absurd Humans Magnificent
The major difference between the ‘best’ and the ‘average’ is that the ‘best’ get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
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Learning Practice Teaching
My job [is] to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it. If they’re not shining you get to ask this question: “Who am I being that my children’s eyes are not shining?”
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Children Eye Jobs
It’s not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.
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Away Giving Power Yourself
When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
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Air Hands Mistake
Imagine Martin Luther King saying, ‘I have a dream … But I don’t know if the others will buy it.’
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Dream Imagine King
The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Jobs Leadership Vision
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
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Inspirational Motivation Music
In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
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Goal Measurement World
I’m so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can’t play great music unless your heart’s been broken.
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Heart Play Sorry
Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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Classical Music Knows

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