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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.

Benjamin Zander

Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
BENJAMIN ZANDER

Eye Player Shining
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
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
Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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Classical Music Knows
When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
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Air Hands Mistake
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’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
Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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Eye Looks Shining
I have a definition of success.
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Definition Definitions Success
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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Course Dream Kings People
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
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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Block Children Memories
The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Jobs Leadership Vision
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Architect Possibility Relentless
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

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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