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.
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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how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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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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Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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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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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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Live the rest of your life in possibility
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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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I have a definition of success.
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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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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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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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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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It is the tuning of the universe… It’s as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.
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Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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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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