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Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.

Benjamin Zander

Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
BENJAMIN ZANDER

Eye Looks Shining
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
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
If you make a mistake, celebrate.
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Celebrate Make Mistakes
I have a definition of success.
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Definition Definitions Success
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’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 absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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Absurd Humans Magnificent
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Architect Possibility Relentless
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
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
Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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Eye Player Shining
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
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
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

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