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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 Zander

If you make a mistake, celebrate.
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Celebrate Make Mistakes
Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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Classical Music Knows
I have a definition of success.
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Definition Definitions Success
Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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Eye Player Shining
Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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Eye Looks Shining
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
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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God Symphony Tiny Tuning Universe
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
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
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 make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Architect Possibility Relentless
When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
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Air Hands Mistake
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
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
The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Jobs Leadership Vision

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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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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