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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?

Benjamin Zander

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
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
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 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
Live the rest of your life in possibility
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Life Possibility Rest
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
how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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Absurd Humans Magnificent
The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Jobs Leadership Vision
Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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Classical Music Knows
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
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
I have a definition of success.
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Definition Definitions Success
If you make a mistake, celebrate.
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Celebrate Make Mistakes
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Architect Possibility Relentless
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
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

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