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Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.

Benjamin Zander

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
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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God Symphony Tiny Tuning Universe
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
Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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Classical Music Knows
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
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
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
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
The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Jobs Leadership Vision
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
Live the rest of your life in possibility
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Life Possibility Rest
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
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Architect Possibility Relentless
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
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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Amount Done Life Stories

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