It’s not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.
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.
More Benjamin Zander Quotes
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Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Live the rest of your life in possibility
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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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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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Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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I have a definition of success.
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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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I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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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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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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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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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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