Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
BENJAMIN ZANDERLook at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
BENJAMIN ZANDERMy 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?”
BENJAMIN ZANDERWho am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
BENJAMIN ZANDERLive the rest of your life in possibility
BENJAMIN ZANDERIt 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.
BENJAMIN ZANDERHow often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?
BENJAMIN ZANDERThe conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
BENJAMIN ZANDERIf you make a mistake, celebrate.
BENJAMIN ZANDERImagine Martin Luther King saying, ‘I have a dream … But I don’t know if the others will buy it.’
BENJAMIN ZANDERWhen you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
BENJAMIN ZANDERThe major difference between the ‘best’ and the ‘average’ is that the ‘best’ get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
BENJAMIN ZANDERIn 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.
BENJAMIN ZANDERI have a definition of success.
BENJAMIN ZANDERI make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
BENJAMIN ZANDERI’m so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can’t play great music unless your heart’s been broken.
BENJAMIN ZANDERIt’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.
BENJAMIN ZANDER