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?”
BENJAMIN ZANDERThe major difference between the ‘best’ and the ‘average’ is that the ‘best’ get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
More Benjamin Zander Quotes
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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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Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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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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Imagine Martin Luther King saying, ‘I have a dream … But I don’t know if the others will buy it.’
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The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.
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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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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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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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Live the rest of your life in possibility
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It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, ‘I have a dream. Of course, I’m not sure they’ll be up to it.
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how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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If you make a mistake, celebrate.
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Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
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Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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