Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
BENJAMIN ZANDERLive the rest of your life in possibility
More Benjamin Zander Quotes
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how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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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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Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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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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Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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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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When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
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I have a definition of success.
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If you make a mistake, celebrate.
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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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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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