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?”
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 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 ZANDERThe job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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 ZANDEREverybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
BENJAMIN ZANDERLife 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.
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 ZANDERWho am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
BENJAMIN ZANDERImagine Martin Luther King saying, ‘I have a dream … But I don’t know if the others will buy it.’
BENJAMIN ZANDERI have a definition of success.
BENJAMIN ZANDERThe major difference between the ‘best’ and the ‘average’ is that the ‘best’ get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
BENJAMIN ZANDERhow absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
BENJAMIN ZANDERWhen you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
BENJAMIN ZANDERIt’s not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.
BENJAMIN ZANDERHow often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?
BENJAMIN ZANDERLive the rest of your life in possibility
BENJAMIN ZANDER