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.
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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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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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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Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
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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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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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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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The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
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Live the rest of your life in possibility
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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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I have a definition of success.
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How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?
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I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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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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