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.
BENJAMIN ZANDERThe job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
More Benjamin Zander Quotes
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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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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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I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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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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When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
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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.
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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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If you make a mistake, celebrate.
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Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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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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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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Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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Live the rest of your life in possibility
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how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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Imagine Martin Luther King saying, ‘I have a dream … But I don’t know if the others will buy it.’
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