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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.

Benjamin Zander

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Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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Classical Music Knows
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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Motivation
When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
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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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Symphony Tiny Tuning
I have a definition of success.
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Definition Definitions
Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
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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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Kings
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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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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Stories
Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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Eye Shining
Imagine Martin Luther King saying, ‘I have a dream … But I don’t know if the others will buy it.’
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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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Block
Live the rest of your life in possibility

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Live the rest of your life in possibility
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Possibility Rest
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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Eye Jobs
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Architect Possibility Relentless
The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Jobs
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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