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The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

Benjamin Zander

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
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
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
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’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
Live the rest of your life in possibility
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Life Possibility Rest
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
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
When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
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Air Hands Mistake
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
Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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Eye Looks Shining
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
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

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