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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.

Benjamin Zander

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
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
Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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Eye Player Shining
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
how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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Absurd Humans Magnificent
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
When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
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Air Hands Mistake
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
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
Live the rest of your life in possibility
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Life Possibility Rest
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Architect Possibility Relentless
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
The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Jobs Leadership Vision
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
Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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Classical Music Knows

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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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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