The major difference between the ‘best’ and the ‘average’ is that the ‘best’ get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
BENJAMIN ZANDERLive the rest of your life in possibility
More Benjamin Zander Quotes
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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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The job of the leader is to speak to the 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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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 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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Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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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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how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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I have a definition of success.
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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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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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Live the rest of your life in 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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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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